Sunday, September 13, 2020

Grace, Love, and Living

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The paragraphs below are from a post I started writing in February.  It was my last effort on the blog for months.  It still represents a bi...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Something on Tragedy

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Early in his career as a theologian, Stanley Hauerwas challenged the pattern of public Christian rhetoric by claiming that much of the think...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Seven Years Between Haircuts

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On May 20 I wrote about a hermeneutical flight of imagination.  I had realized that it was 70 months since Everly's death.  I had realiz...

Wondering If We're Ever Gonna Get Home Tonight...

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Some days just call for listening to the blues, and my go-to blues singer is Ruthie Foster.  For those who don't know her music, here...
Monday, August 05, 2019

A Prayer in the Midst of a Horrifying Night

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I've been trying to get through some academic writing, so telling myself I don't have time for blogging.  But tonight I need to writ...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

Defiant Imagination, Part 3: Other Songs of When They See Us

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Having written a lengthy analysis of the song "Moon River" and its pivotal significance as part of the soundtrack of When They See...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Defiant Imagination, Part 2: Frank Ocean's "Moon River" and Seeing Possible Worlds

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As the final episode of When They See Us was coming to a close a song began to play that grabbed my attention.  It was a new arrangement ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Defiant Imaginations, Part 1: Thoughts on Malcolm, Ruby, and Louis

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Absorbing and responding to the Ava DuVernay film event, When They See Us , will take some time and more than one post here.  As I thought t...