Religion
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Sunday Night Journal — March 21, 2004 I am a lazy man who leads a busy but sedentary life. I have a desk job and usually work through lunch. I spend an hour and a half every day in the car, going to work and coming home. What little leisure I have I prefer to…
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Sunday Night Journal — March 7, 2004 I believe it has been more than once remarked, memorably by C. S. Lewis, that Christianity encompasses equally the mysterious and the reasonable aspects of religion—what Lewis called the thick and the thin and I call Blood and Light. On the one hand dangerous incomprehensible powers with definite…
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Sunday Night Journal — February 29, 2004 When someone begins a sentence with the words “I’m not superstitious, but…” you can be pretty sure he is about to confess a superstition. So let me phrase this a bit more straightforwardly and precisely than that: I don’t consider myself to be superstitious, but I do sometimes…
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Sunday Night Journal — February 1, 2004 In an otherwise conventional speech (reported here) [sorry, that link is no longer valid -mh 6/22/2010] justifying an abortion she had in the 1950s before she was married, the novelist Ursula Le Guin recently made an odd and extremely sad statement: that if she had not been able…
Light On Dark Water 