by Guy Sayles | Mar 30, 2011 |
A sampling of the books I have read in the last month or so and/or am currently reading. POETRY I recently finished Christian Wiman’s new book of poems, Every Riven Thing and Galway Kinnel’s Three Books: Body Rags; Mortal Acts, Mortal Words; The Past. Wiman is the...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 23, 2011 |
It was a long time ago now, but I clearly remember the day one of my seminary professors came into the classroom, put his lecture notes and books down on the lectern with a thud, scanned the room with an intense and serious look on his face, and asked: “How many of...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 14, 2011 |
When I say leader, what images flash across your mind? For me, the word conjures up quite a crowded room full of people, many of whom are so different from each other that they wouldn’t be very comfortable with my having gotten them together. There’s George Patton...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 7, 2011 |
Love depends on knowledge and acceptance. Love takes the time to find out who you really are: what you think and believe, what you question and doubt, what puzzles and perplexes you, what delights and enlivens you, where you’ve been, what’s happened to you, where you...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 1, 2011 |
Fear is faith’s adversary. Fear makes us see the world as a dangerous place, shrouded in darkness and stalked by death. So, we build thick walls around our hearts and high-fences around our loved ones. To protect ourselves from hurt, we push aside adventure. To...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 22, 2011 |
Early on, I bought the idea—maybe you bought it, too—that the older I got and the more I learned, the more I would know for sure. As time went by, I’d have more understanding and fewer questions. I liked that idea, so I stocked the warehouse of mind full of facts. By...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 16, 2011 |
A final post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. Our world, torn asunder by division and hostility, needs people who will embrace Jesus’ calling to be peacemakers, not just peacekeepers and conflict-avoiders....
by Guy Sayles | Feb 13, 2011 |
A fourth post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. For me, no other story makes as much sense out of the perplexity and mystery of life as the story of Jesus. His story fires my imagination and warms my heart. I...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 11, 2011 |
A third post about “my witness”–brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. God made all people and gave everyone an ineradicable dignity. God loves all people unconditionally and passionately. And, God’s love, made...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 8, 2011 |
A second post about “my witness,” brief reflections on truths I have learned from my experience with Jesus. In the last post, I wrote about my core conviction all people bear God’s image and have, for that reason, ineradicable dignity and inestimable worth. A reading...
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