February 2012
2 posts
“Not long ago, in Kuntsevo, I suddenly crossed myself when I saw an oak....”
–
Marina Tsvetaeva, 1919-1920, in Poetry, March 2012, p. 559.
You should probably subscribe to this magazine. A student subscription is $17.50 USD and…well…you get lots and lots of poetry.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/
“It was forbidden for the bourgeoisie to use horses for removing snow from the...”
– Marina Tsvetaeva, 1919-1920, in Poetry, March 2012, p. 555.
You should probably subscribe to this magazine. A student subscription is $17.50 USD and…well…you get lots and lots of poetry.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/
December 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction cannot so readily be achieved in...”
– Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Chapter 28.
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
2 posts
“Don’t doubt in the dark what you heard in the light.”
“It is my conviction that the combination of these principles—voluntaryism,...”
– from “What’s American About American Jewry?” by Joseph Blau, published in Judaism (Summer 1958)
April 2011
3 posts
“The theological task, therefore, is to integrate the present account of human...”
– A remarkable article by Rev. Dr. Philip Turner, “The Achilles Heel of Anglicanism (in North America and the United Kingdom).” It is so much better than it sounds. In fact, it is as good as anything I’ve read at proposing a programmatic agenda for the task of ecclesial theology in...
A crucial article on the need for sleep. →
“The Psalm (95/96) has this title: “When the house was being built after the...”
– St. Augustine, Sermon 27, 1; PL 38, 178
March 2011
4 posts
“Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’...”
– John Updike, Seven Stanzas at Easter
“(W.R.) Reg Ward decisively changed the way historians understand the origins of...”
– From Bruce Hindmarsh and Mark Noll’s celebration of the career of W.R. Ward, the great historian of modern Protestant evangelicalism who died last year. If you want to understand the emergence of evangelicalism in transnational perspective, this is the guy to read. No glib answers…never...
January 2011
5 posts
At the Galleria Shopping Mall
BY TONY HOAGLAND
Just past the bin of pastel baby socks and underwear,there are some 49-dollar Chinese-made TVs;
one of them singing news about a far-off war,one comparing the breast size of an actress from Hollywood
to the breast size of an actress from Bollywood. And here is my niece Lucinda,
who is nine and a true daughter of Texas,who has developed the...
“The great ages in history, he says, “have said to the human being,...”
– Marilynne Robinson on William James’ philosophical method, snipped from her review of Robert Richardson’s anthology of seventeen James essays, The Heart of William James in The Nation, November 23rd, 2010. Read the whole piece here.
December 2010
3 posts
WatchBehold Josiah’s ballet of cuteness in the front hallway of Chateau Maskell, Glen Mills, PA.
David Bentley Hart on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and... →
November 2010
6 posts
WatchThis is my new favorite video. “I am glad you like my tattoo of Saint Athanasius…” Priceless!
WatchJosiah “Tweedy” Maskell learns to rock.
"One and Many" by Czeslaw Milosz
in New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001
The Prince of This World governs number. The singular is the hidden God’s dominion, The Lord of rescues and exception’s Father Who from the start inhabited my errors.
One against the multiplication table. Particular, free from the general. Without hands or eyes yet real. Who is, every day, though unrevealed.
Don’t be afraid of the empty...
“Philosophers are sometimes seen as foolish, or tiresome, because they are always...”
– Philosopher Tim Scanlon, from a photo essay(!) on philosophers. http://nyti.ms/dA5lW3
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
4 posts
WatchIt’s September 22nd! Happy Fall! Felix Culpa!
There’s a chill in the air and I miss the Midwest.
(whole song here http://bit.ly/bHVJRS)
August 2010
4 posts
“The historian’s first responsibility is to get it right—to find out what...”
– Tony Judt, on the public, moral dimensions of the work of a historian. Read the whole interview here: http://www.bu.edu/historic/hs/judt.html
“…Listening, the narrator analyzes his own reactions with a characteristic...”
– Read the whole review here: http://nyti.ms/cSO5T8
July 2010
7 posts
“What was theological terror for one generation was for the next a vaguely...”
– Edwin Gaustad on patterns of generational theological change in American religious history, from his Dissent In American Religion (Chicago, 1973). I wonder how this stacks up across centuries and nations…
New Methodist study uncovers the hallmarks of... →
“In the beginning, it was a Bible verse of the day,” says Mark Tauber, who runs...”
– This priceless quote is from Mark Oppenheimer’s (@markopp1) new NYTimes piece on the rise, fall, rise, fall(ish), and rise (maybe?) of Beliefnet.com, one of the nation’s great spiritual barometers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/us/03beliefs.html
June 2010
8 posts
“Marginality is becoming universal.”
– Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life