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A Call to Doubt and Faith: Christian Wiman on Remembering God

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

The poet Christian Wiman is giving voice to the hunger for faith — and the challenges of faith — for people living now. After a Texas upbringing soaked in a his...

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New York Times on ‘My Bright Abyss,’ by Christian Wiman

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

‘My Bright Abyss,’ by Christian Wiman reviewed at the NYT: This is a daring and urgent book, written after the author learned he had a rare, incurable and unpre...

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New York Times on ‘My Bright Abyss,’ by Christian Wiman

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

‘My Bright Abyss,’ by Christian Wiman reviewed at the NYT: This is a daring and urgent book, written after the author learned he had a rare, incurable and unpre...

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My Brother's Book by Maurice Sendak

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I think most of this very short book just went over my head. I'm not real knowledgeable about his life or the literature and art from which it seems to draw it...

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The Singer by Calvin Miller

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

  For most who live, hell is never knowing who they are. The Singer knew and knowing was his torment. Recalling the popularity of  The Singer: A Classic Re...

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Mrs. Scrooge by Carol Ann Duffy

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I realize it isn’t even Thanksgiving so perhaps I shouldn’t be reviewing Christmas books just yet.  But I thought I would offer a quick take on this...

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NYTBR on The Anthologist

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I am not a big poetry person so I was a little worried about reading The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker.  The NYTBR review makes me want to read it however: And...

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  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

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  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

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