From John Updike’s In the Beauty of the Lilies, in which Reverend Clarence Wilmont confesses his loss of faith to his wife Stella. Although Clarence is a fictional character, he has many real-life counterparts. Read the illuminating “Preachers Who Are Not Believers” in the March 2010 issue of Evolutionary Psychology. [Post image: Up on the pulpit by madmaven […]
John Updike’s “Seven Stanzas at Easter”
Bevin, a friend from Georgia whom I’ve never officially met, sent this lovely poem to me through Facebook. Thanks, Bevin! What I didn’t know, until I did a little research, is that John Updike won “Best in Show” in a church writing contest with it, when he was a Harvard graduate attending Clifton Lutheran Church […]