This is a list of mind and boundary bending, truly excellent books I’ve been reading. Other books have been read, and reread (because everyone needs a few desert island books), Continues…
Tag Archives: Great Books
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The Power of Prayer and the Politics of Hope
I met Walter Wink at Kirkridge Retreat Center around 1979, and I was quite taken with his theology. He spoke of a politics of hope and the myth of redemptive Continues…
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On Being Saved by a Poem
Poetry and I are old friends. When I had to move home for a year in college, poetry was the one thing that kept me sane (except for Robert Lowell). Continues…
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Today’s List
Thinking again… Every day I write a To Do list like a million other people who set out to accomplish something before their days are diminished by one. Today my Continues…
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Poems and Prayers
I read a lot of poetry, but not too much. I once made the mistake of reading every book of poetry in the Brightwaters Public Library on Long Island in Continues…