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...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 22, 2016 |
Words are both fragile and sturdy vessels. Like rafts on storm-tossed water, they sometimes break beneath us and leave us stranded at a far distance from the mystery and meaning we sought to reach. Not always, though; they also may take us beyond the horizon of...
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