W.H. Auden
Forgetting Ourselves, Remembered by God
Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reasons May Sound Ideal, But We Can Never Be Sure We We’ve Done so Adequately.
Demanding a Miracle in 2021
“Alone, Alone, About a Dreadful Wood / Of Conscious Evil Runs a Lost Mankind”
The Post-Christmas Blues and W. H. Auden’s Christmas Ora …
God Will Cheat No One, not Even the World of Its Triumph
Another Week Ends: Auden’s Advice, Hospital Chaplains, Good …
1. Today many of us are looking for clarity amidst the fraying strands of daily […]
Rejoice: The Absurd Command, Part 3
The conclusion of a three-part series. Read the others here. Beloved, we are always in […]
We Are Always in the Wrong: The Absurd Command, Part 2
Continuing from last week’s first part. Kierkegaard once (indirectly) wrote that it is an edifying […]
Another Week Ends: Remembering Billy Graham, Masculinity, The Midl …
1. First up, Tullian Tchividjian posted a reflection on his remarkable grandfather, the late Billy […]
The God Who Can’t Hate His Fingers
A passage from W.H. Auden’s posthumously published The Prolific and the Devourer, which comes to […]
Three Stanzas of W.H. Auden’s “In Sickness and in Heal …
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too […]
Jesus Fulfilled None of W.H. Auden’s Dreams
Writing for The Chimera in the summer of 1943, W.H. Auden let fly this zinger, […]
From the Archives: What Kind of Anxious Are You?
“To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, […]
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