Tuesday My brother Sam, an enthusiastic Unitarian Universalist, gave me Karen Armstrong’s Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life for Christmas, and I was pleased that the author sees literature playing a major role. In today’s post I share how she draws on the ancient Greeks. Armstrong writes, “All faiths insist that compassion is the test […]
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Through Lit, We Learn Compassion
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Prelude", Aeschylus, compassion, Eumenides, Euripides, Heracles, Homer, Iliad, Oresteia, Sophocles, Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth Comments closed
France vs. the Little Engine That Could
Which World Cup story do we root for? The little engine that could or redemption after humiliation?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Casey's Revenge, Croatia, France, Grantland Rice, Little Engine that Could, Sophocles, Watty Piper, World Cup Comments closed
Act in All Things as Love Will Prompt
My lectures on Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Shakespeare and Sophocles all seem to track back to Lent these days.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Flannery O'Connor, Good Man Is Hard to Find, James Baldwin, King Lear, Lent, Sonny's Blues, Sophocles, Suffering, William Shakespeare Comments closed
My Dinner with Mladen
An account of a dinner with an old Slovenian friend and intellectual.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged intellectual conversations, Ion, King Lear, Mladen Dolar, Pierre de Marivaux, Plato, Republic, Samuel Beckett, Sophocles, Wayne Booth, William Shakespeare, Worstward Ho Comments closed
