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Advent and Godot (Part One: Isolation)
He seems to say that only… amid God’s paucity, not his plenty, can the core of the human condition be approached… Yet his musical cadences, his wrought and precise sentences, cannot help but stave off...
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Advent and Godot (Part Two: Delivering The Comedy)
I will anoint them with oil to give them gladness instead of sorrow. ~ Isaiah 61:3 With bleakness as its backdrop, the absurdity of Waiting For Godot exists in its dialog riddled with non sequitur...
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Advent and the Absence of God
In the bleak mid-winter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone. – Christina Rossetti, “In the Bleak Midwinter” The raging, fertile excesses of summer are long gone and...
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Lo, how a rose e’er blooming . . .
Lo, how a rose e’er blooming, From tender stem hath sprung. Of Jesse’s lineage coming, As men of old have sung; It came, a flow’ret bright, Amid the cold of winter, When half spent was the night....
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Doubting at Christmas
. . . But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband— that is quite another matter. —C.S. Lewis, Miracles Christmas:...
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Joy Williams and the Psalms
Photo by Shane Adams on Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Joy Williams’ recent release, VENUS, received lukewarm reviews. Rolling Stone claimed Williams’ voice couldn’t “hold the space” of her orchestration. NPR, not...
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Returning
Dennis and Mike My brother-in-law died on Thanksgiving. His death took him away from a suffering that began, in truth, the day his wife died suddenly nine years ago. His wife’s death did not mark a...
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The Case for Krampus
“Vintage Christmas Postcard Krampus” by Dave / Flickr photo Christmas Eve 1928. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons Good holiday stories need a villain. Ebenezer Scrooge, The Grinch, Hans Gruber. And...
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