“I Don’t Think Humans Have any Power over Meaning. Meaning is Given to Us. We Can’t Make Meaning.”
Pirates, Parrots, and Plot Holes of Grace
“That Kid and His Monkey / Were Terrible Thieves. / Why Do They Get to Dance and Sing?”
The Personal Is Apocalyptic: When Your World Unravels
On Brian Evenson’s Song for the Unraveling of the World
Experiencing Law and Gospel Through Dostoevsky and Jesus
God Orchestrated My Salvation through Two Books: Crime and Punishment and the Gospel of Luke
“Himself,” from Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold
“‘I suppose,’ said the man, ‘you expect me to worship you.'”
Jamie Quatro Envisions Unconditional Love in New York City
“And You, With Your Wayward Thoughts, in the Agony of Temptation: I Would Have You No Other Way”
Love, Compassion, and the Relative Suffering of Christ on the Cross: Intimations by Zadie Smith
On Letting Yourself Acknowledge Pain
Our Unwelcome Infinite Summer: David Foster Wallace and Martin Luther on Desire and Discontent
“The burning doesn’t go away? … What fire dies when you feed it?”