Art as a Window to the Divine – Page 4

Into The Deep

When I used to teach Junior Great Books to middle school kids I would train them not to answer a question too quickly. Put your hand down. Sit with it. You can’t possibly have something thoughtful to say that quickly. Wait a minute. Wait 30 seconds. See if something beyond your first impulse rises toContinue reading “Into The Deep”

Beyond The Limits of Knowing

Another glorious jolt in my inbox this morning from Richard Rohr’s new series on The Wisdom Tradition. This passage in particular spoke to me. “Alongside all our knowing, accompanying every bit of our knowing, must be the humble “knowing that we do not know.” That’s why the great tradition of prayer is balanced by bothContinue reading “Beyond The Limits of Knowing”

Freedom

In the desert of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. ——W. H. Auden

Daughters

I have so many friends raising girls right now that I thought I would share with them this small, perfect poem—a guidepost if ever there was one—by the gifted poet, Mark Jarman. A Prayer for our Daughters May they never be lonely at parties Or wait for mail from people they haven’t written Or stillContinue reading “Daughters”

I want to believe

“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, justContinue reading “I want to believe”