The power of poetry illustrated
Reading Peter Hitchens' comments on the power of poetry (see Hitchens & Hitchens below) reminded me of John Updike's beautiful "Seven Stanzas at Easter." He wrote it when he was 28 for his church's Religious Arts Festival and won the…
Talking stones
“I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” (Luke 19:40) Jesus’ stones crying out always brings to mind Annie Dillard’s essay “Teaching a Stone to Talk”: “The island where I live is peopled with cranks…