Category: Reading Out Loud
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Perspective
the abortion debate presumes that pregnancy itself contributes nothing essential to the creation of a rights-bearing person
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“Writing in the Sand” by Christian Wiman
On religion and poetry, being and meaning, and on God’s … being in the world as poetry is in the poem, a law against its closure. Beautiful. Image: “Pre School lesson writing in sand,” Menschensindanders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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On Dolly Parton and the Beauty of Virtue
Dolly Parton is not simply a good person, or a beautiful poetess; she is both beautiful and good, in a way the philosophy of character strives to explain but can’t always illustrate convincingly. … it may be that Dolly can do more to explain the philosophers than the other way around. Let us make a […]
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Eberhard Arnold on “The Interim God”
The great division between God and the devil is not the division between life here and life beyond, between matter and spirit, between corporeality and incorporeality – no, it runs right through all spirits and all bodies, through all eternities and all times. In every body, every human being, both powers are at work. Both […]
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A Model of Abundance
“What Did the Early Church Say About Economic Justice?” – from Plough – this morning’s email. Image: “Stilleben: Alter Wein und Brot,” Albert Anker, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Matters of Interpretation 