The Sound of Silence
We live in noisy times. We are saturated with sounds, words, and images. Silence frightens us, and for good reasons. The world is hard…
The Comfort of the Resurrection
As we enter into Holy Week, it is easy to fall into the patterns of remembrance, repentance, and expectation, leading up to the great…
The Gritty Realism of Thomas Hardy
It is a commonly held opinion that Thomas Hardy, the prolific Victorian poet and novelist, is a pessimist. This perspective is documented well in a…
Art That Doesn’t Change Your Life
Someone recently asked me about the books I like to read. My first impulse was to start naming books that have changed my life….
Enchanting Evil
In God and Enchantment of Place, David Brown draws our attention to the need for re-enchantment in our interaction with the world around us—that…
Kierkegaard versus the Biblical Critics
In For Self-Examination, Kierkegaard critiques the historical-critical method in biblical scholarship, presenting the biblical critic as a self-deceived, crafty coward, comparable to a young…
The Art of Love
A work of art is a new creation, a thing with an existence of its own. As such it lives and speaks not only…