Nothing clears a room faster than the word sin. Sin. Sin. Sin. Sin. Sin. That’s all you Christians talk about and we’re sick of it. We don’t need it. We don’t want it. And we don’t believe in it anyway. So says the culture in 21st-century America. But denying sin’s existence doesn’t make it goContinue reading “Man Turned In On Himself”
Category Archives: Homo Incurvatus In Se
Why Do You Think America is the Most Anxious Country in the World?
I explore the possibilities this month on Theology for Everyday Life.
Listen
It’s the hardest thing in the world to do. Listen. Just that. Just quiet our own mind and hurts and distractions and points of view and listen. Metaxu. This work of art—which bears that title—was done by an artist/scholar/professor I met at a conference in 2001 or so. Her haunting images never left me. AndContinue reading “Listen”
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
Heather Choate Davis 