Setting Sail: Conversations before General Synod
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Fall 2003
J.R.R. Tolkien: a writer in search of myth
A few days after notice went out that the first lecture in our winter series would deal with J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a message arrived in my e-mail inbox. The sender was interested in attending and bringing his son. He needed to be clear on one point: was I going [...]
read moreQuestions that pull beyond the horizon
“Why can’t reason give us greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?” — Piscine Molitor Patel, narrator of The Life of Pi
With respect to the author, Pi’s question isn’t really a child’s question. The child’s question would be more like, “When I throw this question over [...]
Snapper, in context
There are people who spend their lives walking a thin divide between something they strive to present to the world—a carefully nurtured persona—and what they really are.
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