Showing posts with label Marilynne Robinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marilynne Robinson. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2017

Donald Trump and U.S. Christians, Three Perspectives: "There Is a Sickness in American Christianity, and Trump Is Feeding on It"

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4 in 5 white evangelicals, 3 in 5 white Catholics and Mormons — "pro-life" voters — brought us the Trump nightmare. I will not...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

As Talk of Mercy Continues in Rome, U.S. Archbishop Restricts Communion to Righteous, Another Gay Employee of a Catholic Ministry Is Fired, Etc.: There's the Church World, and Then There's the Real World

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I wrote yesterday that while the men in Rome are nattering on about mercy and fashioning a church that's a field hospital for th...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

The Command to Open Our Hands and American Exceptionalism: Marilynne Robinson on the Real Roots of American Christianity

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On this American holiday centered on giving thanks, Marilynne Robinson's words in her essay entitled "Open Thy Hand Wide: Mo...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Quote for the Day: Marilynne Robinson, "Shorthand Justice Is Not the Thing at All"

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Marilynne Robinson speaking to Bill Moyers about her magnificent new novel Lila , which I've just finished reading:
Thursday, August 14, 2014

A Reader Writes: "Are These Conservative Churches Really . . . a Weird Kind of New World Hebraic Cult?" — Reflections on the Neo-Calvinist Movement in U.S. Evangelicalism

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Several days ago, in response to my posting about how Steve's two aunts who are nuns received the news of our marriage in May, ti...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

In the News: On Not Saying Gay, Idaho Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage, Marilynne Robinson on Leviticus and Gays, and Cincinnati Catholic School Contract

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Brief takes from recent news or commentary on the news:
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Marilynne Robinson on "The Great Narrative" of Wondrous Love in the Gospels: An Advent Meditation

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I posted this excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's essay "Wondrous Love" during Holy Week 2012. I'm of a mind to publ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Marilynne Robinson on the Emancipation Movement: Chick-fil-A Supporters in Historical Context

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Last week, as Steve and I drove north from Missouri into Iowa on Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day and as we spotted long lines of cars a...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Marrying Well: Stable Families, Economic Success, and Morality Tales

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At the Commonweal blog right now,  Eric Bugyis offers a valuable discussion of Jason DeParle's recent New York Times   article w...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Fred Clark (and Marilynne Robinson) on Evangelical Tribalism: Implications for Catholics

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Moving Beyond Tribalism I very much appreciate  Fred Clark's valuable work in defining and critiquing evangelical tribalism .  Cl...
Monday, April 9, 2012

More Marilynne Robinson: Synchronicity, Synergy, and Nature as Shining Garment of Divinity

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Marilynne Robinson finds science's inability to imagine the world analogically, or to speak of what it observes in analogical ter...

Marilynne Robinson on Community and Imagination: Applications for Contemporary Catholicism

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In her new book When I Was a Child I Read Books (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012),  Marilynne Robinson sees the basis of commun...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Reflections During the Sacred Triduum: Marilynne Robinson and the Central Narrative of Scripture as Wondrous Love

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I'm also reading Marilynne Robinson's new book  When I Was a Child I Read Books  (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) these da...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Reflections on Marilynne Robinson's "Home": Yet More Light and Truth

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I finished Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home last week, and want to recommend this book to anyone who appreciates first-rate literature, or ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Thought for Day: No More Theological Sense Than a Jackrabbit

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You can spend forty years teaching people to be awake to the fact of mystery and then some fellow with no more theological sense than a jack...
Saturday, April 4, 2009

Iowa, the Churches, and Human Rights: A Meditation on the Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death

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I am impressed by Iowa. Yesterday, when the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously declared that Iowa’s statute forbidding same-sex marriage discri...