Love Not in Vain: The Open Secret Well, I was lonesome, I felt so lonesome and I could not help but cry All my love's in vain —Robert Johnson All the way to heaven is heaven. —St. Catherine of Siena Since watching Bergman’s Winter Light recently, I’ve been haunted by a scene in which a…

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I haven’t read any of N.T. Wright's books—just a couple of magazine articles—but I know he’s regarded by many orthodox Catholics as a pretty solid theologian (he’s the Anglican Bishop of Durham). Here he is in Time, talking about the authentic Christian conception of heaven and asserting that many or most Christians have it wrong.…

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I have actually done this. My daughter Clare was lucky enough to witness it. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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As part of a substantial rearrangement of our house, my wife and I have been going through our books and forcing ourselves to get rid of those we’re pretty sure we’ll never read or never read again. On Monday I found a little book that I probably bought at a library sale and have never…

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Here’s something I wrote about it a few years ago. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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The Terrible Severance We went to a Mardi Gras parade Saturday night in Daphne, a little town just up the road. Standing around, bored, waiting for the parade to start, I heard a small voice say “Hi.” I looked down to see a little girl with long dark hair, four years old or so. “Hi,”…

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Leonard Cohen: Ten New Songs Leonard Cohen was born in 1934, and considering not just the productive life but the physical life of most popular music performers, it’s a little surprising that he was still active in 2001, at the age of 66, when this album was made. It’s even more surprising that he was…

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The day of the absolute last game of the season seems like a good time to commemorate this scene. It occurred off the field, a minute or two after Mississippi State's last-second come-from-behind win over Ole Miss: As those who follow the Southeastern Conference at all know, Sylvester ("Sly") Croom was one of the first…

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I've been meaning to add a section of links called Friends and Family. Garrett's Postmodern Orthodoxy will be among them. I'm leaving out his last name as he doesn't include it on his blog, but when or if he sees this he can volunteer it. He uses the word "orthodoxy" in an Evangelical Protestant context;…

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you'll probably think this is mildly funny. If you have, you'll probably think it's really funny. http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271557392 I mean, unless you're a really serious admirer of Hillary Clinton. (Hat tip to Mark Shea, again.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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