Narrating a Dying Child’s Life
Avery is the five-month-old daughter of Laura and Mike Canahuati. She suffers from a rare genetic disorder that will take her life in less than two years. In response to learning, on Good Friday...
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Echoes on the Road
“Every story is a play of at least three persons (author/actor/addressee) whose outcome is never final. That is why narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetic responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become...
What Does Invoking God Get You in Ethics?
Not much, says Julian Sanchez, and he’s right. Over the past decade, I’ve moved away from religious faith as an explanation for why the universe exists, why it is the way it is, and...
Excremental Deity
In his diary, Evelyn Waugh reminisced about his friend Randolph Churchill’s response to reading the Bible for the very first time: “My God, what a shit God is!” Yeah, I say with a sigh....
Moments in Parenting When You Don’t Know What to Say
At dinner the other night, the boy, in his very matter-of-fact tone of voice, proclaimed, “You know where I wish my head was attached to my body? Between my legs.” He did clarify. He...
Echoes on the Road
“The performance of a play, like that of a ritual, cannot simply be detached from the play itself, as if it were something that is not part of its essential being, but is as...
Ah, Henchmen
Be sure to read Tod Kelly’s front page post, “The Henchman’s Diary.” It’s a fattening, super-delicious bowl of awesomesauce. And, while we’re on the theme, let me say, if the life and times of...
Creating the Morality of Christ
While we can point to the Sermon on the Mount as an originary expression of the “morality of Christ,” we cannot fully arrive at the sense of this morality through a textual analysis alone....
