There is a Place Beyond Ambition When the flute players couldn’t think of what to say next they laid down their pipes, then they lay down themselves beside the river and just listened. Some of them, after a while, jumped up and disappeared back inside the busy town. But the rest— so quiet, not even […]
Happy Can Mean So Many Things
If you follow this blog, you’ll know I’m an avid fan of Speaking of Faith, a radio broadcast/podcast on MPR. Topics range from Buddhism to Christianity to quantum physics. It’s so intriguing. [Update on 1.5.11: Speaking of Faith‘s name has been changed to Being.] Yesterday, I trekked up to Minneapolis to pick up my sister […]
Happiness Is…
How are you doing on those New Year changes you decided to make? Or should I say change (singular)? I’m interjecting a song in the middle of my God: A Biography revelations (see two previous posts here and here), as a reminder that gratefulness for the simplest things can change the outlook of our days […]
God as Literary Character – Part 2
I’ve been reading God: A Biography by Jack Miles, and have found so many things worth thinking about. For my preliminary thoughts, see yesterday’s post here. We are all our fathers and our mothers, in that we inherited 23 chromosomes from one, and 23 from the other. We have nothing all our own. That said, […]
God as Literary Character
I’m devouring this book–God: A Biography by Jack Miles. Of course, I’m hoping some of it will be useful and translatable for my second novel. [Jack Miles, “a former Jesuit, pursued religious studies at Pontifical Gregorian College, Rome, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and holds a doctorate in Near Eastern languages from Harvard University.”] The Bible […]