[…] was about twelve, yet another retelling of the Cinderella story was released into theatres in a magic -free but nonetheless magical version called Ever After. One of my favorite scenes in this film involves […]
[…] So whether you’re talking about verbal language or visual representation, abstraction is the first step in meaning -making. Within that logic, theology is itself an abstraction. Religion is, at its foundation, a meaning–making structure. […]
[…] area of scholarship has long been the Italian epic tradition and, more recently, the iconography of pre -twentieth–century ballet performers. Notwithstanding these facts, what I do know is that I very much needed to […]
[…] void.” It is an attempt to use ontological reasoning to range outside ontology, like an apocryphal sixth verse, an anti -verse scrawled upside down in the margin at the end of “If You Could […]
[…] as fiercely. In the essay “Mt. Charleston on My Mind,” for example, Barber reflects on a near -death experience from her childhood when a massive boulder just missed flattening her family’s vehicle as part […]
[…] Ada Palmer estimates we know 1 percent of what happened five hundred years ago and that two -thirds of what we know is wrong. I have no reason to doubt her expertise—and every reason […]
[…] belt, face smeared with something red. I’m checking the expiration date on the back of a suspicious -looking soup can; down the aisle, a woman haggles with the butcher over a pound of lamb. […]
[…] holy is eclipsed by flesh. I pant in claustrophobia between the lady who snores and the gum -chomper, suddenly surrounded by bodies. I remember how, during my last pregnancy, the gurgle of stomachs, the […]
[…] toward us, fading coal of memory igniting into color, presence and invisibility becoming one, Christ choosing fishers -of–men on a heightened mural wall behind the rostrum. Here, our woes know no hierarchy, all grief […]
[…] when head and neck torque to investigate sudden disquiet, to say how, why, and can we re -member what happens in the flesh when God and we come to be . . . Note: […]