Monthly Archive: April 2012

Narrating a Dying Child’s Life

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...

Echoes on the Road

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...

Excremental Deity

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....

Echoes on the Road

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

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

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....

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