All in Why I Love
As an avid reader, I’ve long experienced the magical power of books to reveal truth. Recently I read Kazou Ishiguro’s newest book Klara and the Sun, and through the journey of Klara’s faith, I experienced that power of books anew as Klara showed me a new way to live.
As discordant as Bon Iver’s album, 22 a Million, is, in it I’ve found a kind of solace, a solace I’ve only ever experienced in the Psalms.
Lila, by Marilynne Robinson will gently change your perception and make you reconsider the world around you through the eyes of the gentle, humble Lila.
As I’ve recently discovered, fungi have rather a lot to teach us, and they’ve helped me rethink a few things about myself and the world too.
What IS the meaning of Christmas, demands Charlie Brown, surrounded by the hallmarks of holiday commercialism. So I ask the same question, and think about the miracle of the birth of Christ.
You might not think cuttlefish, the strange little color changing cephalopods, amount to life changing creatures. I beg to differ! These creatures taught me what it means to be a scientist, and now they’re teaching me how to better appreciate all that I come in contact with.
Love is a mystery, but after 50 days of marriage, maybe I understand it just a little more clearly.
In a world carved out by polarization and partisanship, the Argument podcast paves a new path, encouraging us to engage with those we disagree with in search of a deeper truth: the truth of friendship.
Lent is often wildly misunderstood, mistaking self discipline for punishment, and assuming it forgets the grace of the Gospel. We need to realize that Lent is a time not when we give things up, but rather we gain something greater as we focus on our relationship with Christ.
The work of battling evil isn’t just for wizards or warriors; the work of overcoming evil with good is the work of each of us, in our everyday lives.
As much as we communicate, we struggle to accurately express our thoughts, feelings, ideas. Is it even possible? Nicola Barker’s character Mira A in H(A)PPY struggles with this balance between what is human and what is perfect, and what is found when we engage the imperfect.
In the depths of Youtube lies a channel full of gold: PBS Idea Channel. This channel invites viewers to consider ideas through new, and often unconventional ways, opening doors to how wild ideas can be if we let them.
Are books meant to tell the stories of fleshed out characters, in whose trials and successes we see ourselves? Or can they also reflect something broader, manifesting the authors view on reality through archetypes? In the writings we of Dostoevsky, we see novels as vehicles to tell a broader story, a larger point, about the nature of the world as he saw it.
Don’t be intimidated by the length of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, War & Peace. In its great length, we experience life and it’s great changes along with the many characters, and come to find an answer to some of life’s most profound questions.
