Love in a Time of Tigers: A St. Valentine's Day Reflection
Wal-Mart doesn’t die out at 11 pm on February 13th. I was in there last night and found it crawling with men bearing hunted expressions in their eyes and chocolate in their carts and…
Month: February 2016
What is Love?
What is love? It is every love song you have ever heard wrapped in silver It is the taste of amber fire on your tongue It is a silken sheet both smooth and strong linking…
Poppy and Pomegranate
A long time ago, when towns were small and cities a treasure, two families took part in perhaps one of the longest and bloodiest feuds ever to linger on the soil of Neritum, if…
Love, Strength and Dignity: The Many Faces of Jane Eyre
If you’re searching for a tale of romance on Valentine’s Day, look no farther than the wonderful literary classic Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. This is one of my favorite books of all time, one…
Cloud Children
Human beings are not, as most of us believe, the only creatures in this world, or even that our world is the only world there is, for there are in reality…
Storytelling: A Ritual of Change
It seems that, while last semester’s coursework and circumstances brought me to think a lot about the notion of home and identity, this year is, instead, placing a focus on story telling. It could, perhaps,…
That Essential Link
It's in their eye, this moment, You can see it, there now, An unspoken glimmer, The link between generations, A knowing beyond words, The real rite of passage, 'Ner known nor fathomed ', Till granted…
A God that Encircles: My Journey Through Celtic Christianity
As a Celtic Christian I’ve seen this question a lot, especially online and mostly posed by someone who seems to think putting any kind of prefix to the word ‘Christian’ cheapens it. I disagree, but…
All Things Permitted?: God, Immortality, and Morality
In The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov’s philosophical and theological ideas are complex and develop in the course of the novel. However, near the beginning of the novel, in Book 2 Chapter 6, an idea is…
