Struggling with a Given Text, Whether Scripture or Literature, is Critical to Receiving a Blessing from It
“A Word That Would Light Up The Night”: Listening to Nick Cave’s Ghosteen in Advent
And the Little White Shape Dancing at the End of the Hall / Is Just a Wish that Time Can’t Dissolve At All”
The Good-Enough to Shame the Great
This one comes to us from our friend Robbie Sapunarich. In a recent op-ed for the New York Times, Avram Alpert writes, Ideals of greatness cut across the American political spectrum. Supporters of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” and believers in Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” for instance, may find themselves at […]
