by Guy Sayles | Apr 6, 2016 |
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Alice walked through the “wood of no names,” where individuals didn’t remember their own names and had little awareness of qualities which set them apart from others. She encountered there...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 30, 2016 |
The anger is palpable, isn’t it? The presidential primary campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have, in different ways, focused and channeled a lot of the anger people feel.Trump and Sanders diverge radically from each other in their fundamental...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 28, 2016 |
From a Chalkboard in Pullman Square, Huntington
by Guy Sayles | Mar 27, 2016 |
In Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, a freed slave, Paul D. tells, Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery but cannot escape her haunting memories: “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.” Easter is the tomorrow we yearn for, the...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 26, 2016 |
Bruce Springsteen sang the truth I experienced this past Thursday evening at All Souls Cathedral: “In the end, what you don’t surrender, well, the world just strips away.”After we shared the Maundy Thursday Eucharist, the church gradually descended into thicker...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 24, 2016 |
One of many gifts I receive from my students at Mars Hill University is our ongoing conversations about vocation and calling. As they get closer to graduating, they inevitably ask questions like:“What’s next?”“Grad school? What discipline and where?”“A...
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