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October 2012

October 23, 2012

Dead Calm at Sea

It’s Monday morning as I write this post. Monday morning, with all that implies: back...

October 22, 2012

King of Kings and Showrunner of Showrunners

With the fall season of primetime television underway, the knives are out and the chopping...

October 20, 2012

Join Us for a Good Letters Event in Washington, DC, November 14

Words. Made Flesh. An Evening With Gregory Wolfe and the Writers of Image journal's "Good...

October 19, 2012

The Unbearable Badness of Ayn Rand

My good friend Marcelo has decided to read Ayn Rand’s fiction, to “see what all...

October 18, 2012

The Three Deadliest Words in the World: It’s a Girl

The woman in this picture has just related to a film crew how she killed...

October 17, 2012

Don’t Cry for Me, Bethesda

Awhile back, a well-meaning (and very successful) friend said to me, “I just wish we...

October 14, 2012

Mending Our Mother-Daughter Story

I finally saw Brave this past weekend, and I can definitely say that I had...

October 11, 2012

Blessed Are the Tentmakers

For my daughter, Evangeline Sofia, who celebrated her first birthday on the second day of...

October 10, 2012

Make Your Life an Altar

I recently came across a short devotional on the Abraham and Isaac story. You know...

October 09, 2012

An Original, Revised Torah

The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, incised upon the tablets....

October 08, 2012

“Phineas and Ferb” versus “SpongeBob Squarepants”

“Aren’t you a little young to save the universe?” “Yes. Yes I am.” Phineas Flynn...

October 07, 2012

Eggs, Milk, and Maternal Instinct

When I saw my eye doctor recently for a potentially serious condition, she recommended that...

October 04, 2012

Words both Real and True

I belong to a movie group that meets monthly in one another’s living rooms...

October 03, 2012

The Tower of Light

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the makings of a...

October 03, 2012

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Since I’ve been blogging here at Good Letters I have been contacted by several friends...

October 01, 2012

Wrestling The Master

I found myself in this strange conversation this week.... Interviewer: Do you recommend The Master?...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

We Should Raze But Not Erase Evil

The arrival of so many small children at the tiny train station at Hattenheim could...

September 26, 2012

My Mother’s Lullabies

My mother used to sing us to sleep. Her lullabies weren’t choruses of “Twinkle, Twinkle...

September 25, 2012

Raising Sons and Raising Men

This past Saturday, on a brilliant fall morning, my eight-year-old son came bounding downstairs for...

September 24, 2012

Shakespeare: God’s Will

Has the Lord God graced us with any poetic mind as elegant and potent as...

September 23, 2012

A Story About Beauty

I have my father’s hands I have my mother’s tongue I look for redemption in...

September 21, 2012

The Theological Imagination of David Foster Wallace, Part Two

Continued from yesterday. In his now infamous 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, David Foster...

September 20, 2012

The Theological Imagination of David Foster Wallace, Part One

When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008 there was much speculation and spilling of...

September 19, 2012

Moon Landings and Mars Rovers: Fascination and Ambivalence

The day before I left on vacation, the front page of the New York Times...

September 18, 2012

Torah Revealed and Withheld: Part Two

(Continued from yesterday.) I’m not ready to leap from my son to your son, God....

September 17, 2012

Torah Revealed and Withheld: Part One

Now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son. Genesis...

September 14, 2012

The Armchair Astronaut Packs for Mars

This post is adapted from my manuscript, The Stained-Glass Kaleidoscope: Essays at Play in the...

September 13, 2012

Monks, Mandalas, and Faith Healing

After the initial cleansing ceremony, they worked in silent concentration. Hour after hour they knelt...

September 12, 2012

Imago Dei

What does it mean to write poems in the Christian tradition? Creative writing teachers at...

September 11, 2012

If This Isn’t an Emergency, Please Hang up and Dial 9/11

I was there. I should know better than to go about my days like this....