Lu’s friends from college are hosting us here in Salt Lake City. They are very kind. I would like to introduce you to the framed delight on their living room wall.
Also, Frederick Buechner signed their copy of this novel that I borrowed from their shelf in the guest room, On the Road With [...]
“The literary writer deliberately leaves space for his reader to play in. The philosopher must not leave any space.” ~ Iris Murdoch
I remember reading a red and worn Catcher in the Rye for the first time in undergrad, I think at Sarah Painter’s insistence. And I remember reading it again, and again, and then again, laughing aloud increasingly more with each turn.
“Humor is every bit as noble as drama and just as honest. To sit [...]
Adult baptism was a dramatic event in the early church. After a lengthy period of study and fasting, the new Christian would be, in the darkness of Easter morning, stripped naked and fully immersed before being reclothed in new white garments–a symbol of death to the old life and birth to the new.
–William Placher, [...]
