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Feeling Disconnected
So, reading the review before you see the movie “spoils” it for you? Then go see the movie first! Sheesh! When Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line was released, it didn’t do very well. It didn’t fit...
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Jesus Land, again
Since having read Jesus Land and posted about it – twice – there have been a couple of interesting developments. The professor who asked me to read and comment on the book, Dr. Amy Laura Hall,...
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Malcolm and Marcus
So, for awhile I have wanted to set the record straight that I actually do know that the boy in question in the book and movie About A Boy is named Marcus, not Malcolm. (This is important face saving...
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Pilgrimage
I remember the question being asked by the teacher in my upper elementary Sunday school class – “What is godliness?” Godliness? I hadn’t heard that one before. Was it a good thing – like being holy?...
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George and Trayvon
About 2 years ago, Brian and I were working our way through mounds of paperwork for IAC, the adoption agency we had recently signed on with. Because we had indicated that we were open to adopting a...
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A dishonor and a privilege
I was in the waiting room of an urgent care this morning when I saw him. He was adorable. Vacillating between heartmeltingly thoughtful and thoughtlessly distracted and studiously disobedient, like any...
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Asking the wrong questions
Last week, a young woman was slashed in the throat in Queens. Apparently, she had offended her male attacker, by ignoring him when he tried to initiate a conversation. “But why did she ignore him?” I...
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White America: Delivered into our iniquity
More than 100 days ago now, a recent high school graduate, Michael Brown, was confronted by a police officer for jaywalking – who soon thereafter shot him several times. Brown’s body was left lying on...
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Slavery, sin, and death
Dr. J. Kameron Carter often referred to Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in his Theology lectures, but it took me almost 4 years to make the time to start reading the book. Jacobs...
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