An Imagination that Makes a Difference
If it isn’t apparent by now that I’m convinced of the essential role of the imagination in our lives, then we have a serious failure of communication. Today’s blog post describes the kind of healthy
If it isn’t apparent by now that I’m convinced of the essential role of the imagination in our lives, then we have a serious failure of communication. Today’s blog post describes the kind of healthy
“Deprive children of stories and you leave them unscripted, anxious stutterers in their actions as in their words.” -Alasdair MacIntyre A peer of mine, bemoaning the inept vacuum we were unfortunate enough to share, once
We have built a worldwide metropolis of glitz and clamor and so we are complicit in her faults. Like Dr. Frankenstein, we have built a monster and our monster has stolen both silence and quiet
“Lord, suffer me to sing these wounds by which I am made and marred, savor this creature whose aloneness you ease and are.” -Christian Wiman, “So Much a Poet He Despises Poetry”
“Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.” -from “After Your Death” by Natasha Trethewey
The locus of glory within the Christian tradition is the incarnation of Christ who is the Word, or Logos, made flesh (John 1); therefore, Christians are essentially people of the Word. We find glorious meaning
Every child is predisposed to love a good story and to see his or her world as part of a larger story. I was no different and in many ways I remain a child whose
Thomas Friedman wrote a provocative book a few years back declaring that, largely due to the rapid growth of technology and the increasing connectivity of people worldwide, the world is now flat. I can find