The first round results for the Fiction & Poetry and Memoirs, Devotionals, & Spirituality brackets are in. Higher seeds mostly held serve, with one or two upsets to keep things interesting. Here's the updated bracket for your office pools. Vote for Round 2 on Facebook! Results Fiction & Poetry Dante's Divine Comedy (1) defeated The Collected Poetry of T.S. Eliot (16) 68-20. You knew this was a tough bracket when T.S. Eliot was the 16 seed! … [Read more...] about Best Christian Book of All Time: Final First Round Results
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The Pursuit of Suffering
I watched the grainy, blocky video in silence. My friend was singing “Land slide” and I felt a cer tain taut ness in my eye brows and a pecu liar heavi ness in the cor ners of my mouth. By now it had become a famil iar feel ing, this phys i cal expres sion of sorrow. Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the chang ing ocean tides Can I han dle the sea sons of my life?” ~Fleet wood Mac, “Land slide,” The Dance, 1997 Sonia Lee '06, whose mel low and res o nant voice was … [Read more...] about The Pursuit of Suffering
Our Top Posts of 2012
Thank you for making 2012 a great year for the Emerging Scholars Blog! Among our posts published last year, our top 10 most read posts includes a typical mix of advice for graduate school, spiritual formation, and, well, aliens: Nicholas Wolterstorff: Advice to Those Who Would Be Christian Scholars Henri Nouwen: From Loneliness to Solitude 13 Ways of Looking at Graduate School: Part 1 Who's Afraid of Angels and Aliens, Alienation and Etcetera? What is the biggest challenge to today's apologist? (part of … [Read more...] about Our Top Posts of 2012
Henri Nouwen: A Creative Response (from Loneliness to Solitude)
I'm concluding my series on Henri Nouwen's book Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life with the final chapter from his first section, which deals with the movement from loneliness to solitude. For several days before I began reading this chapter, I had not responded well to events at home, such as my children acting like children, for goodness' sake. Nouwen's words at the beginning of this chapter (entitled "A Creative Response") caught me up short: As long as we are trying to run away from loneliness … [Read more...] about Henri Nouwen: A Creative Response (from Loneliness to Solitude)
Henri Nouwen: What’s the cure for loneliness?
Last week, I began blogging through the first section of Henri Nouwen's Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (to read the first post click here). The first movement – from loneliness to solitude – struck a chord within me, as I reflected that graduate school can be a lonely time and place for many people. Of course, loneliness can strike at any time and any place. Loneliness is even independent of the number of people you're with. Solitude of Heart What's the cure for loneliness? Solitude. But … [Read more...] about Henri Nouwen: What’s the cure for loneliness?