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Book Review: The Return of the Prodigal Son

April 8, 2014 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

On a handful of occasions, a work of art has riveted my attention. As a college student, a painting in the Butler Museum of Art titled In Flanders Fields Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow  by Robert Vonnoh had that effect as I pondered young girls picking scarlet red poppies in what had once been a killing field. For Henri J.M. Nouwen, it was a portion of Rembrandt's painting of The Return of the Prodigal Son that had this same effect. Eventually he spent several days meditating upon the original and out of this and … [Read more...] about Book Review: The Return of the Prodigal Son

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: henri nouwen, Rembrandt, The Return of the Prodigal Son

Beyond Ordinary and Proper

May 3, 2013 by David Leave a Comment

"There is something wrong with you," she said, her face twisting in genuine disbelief and horror. "You are crazy." I laughed, but comments like these were starting to get to me. At work, I've been sharing more and more about what my life in the city is like. By this I mean telling the fun and juicy stories: nearly getting jumped, waking up to gunshots, living next to pedophiles & sex offenders, finding gas leaks and mice in the kitchen. I should have known that focusing on these more dramatic & exotic … [Read more...] about Beyond Ordinary and Proper

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: displacement, henri nouwen, inner city, Rembrandt

Lenten Preparations: A Time of Contrition

March 8, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV 7 Comments

As you prepare for Lent, meditate upon (and share with a friend) these words from C.S. Lewis' Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language: The Lenten season is devoted especially to what the theologians call contrition, and so every day in Lent a prayer is said in which we ask God to give us "contrite hearts."1 Contrite, as you know, is a word translated from Latin, meaning crushed or pulverized. Now modern people complain that there is too much of that note in our Prayer Book. They do not … [Read more...] about Lenten Preparations: A Time of Contrition

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Resources for ESN Members Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, bobby gross, C. S. Lewis, lent, living the christian year, Miserable Offenders, Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son

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