by Guy Sayles | Feb 14, 2012 |
Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. in After Virtue, claimed that two of our culture’s emblematic professions “the Manager” and “the Therapist.” The Manager is mostly concerned with technique—with turning raw material into products, turning unskilled labor into skilled...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 10, 2012 |
For many years now, I’ve had a growing conviction that the great Catholic theologian Karl Rahner was right to have claimed: “The Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at all.” He meant that people will either have a dynamic, immediate, and...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 30, 2012 |
At a critical point in The Lord of the Rings, Frodo, the Hobbit whose burden it was to carry the Ring toward its destruction—the destruction that would save Middle Earth—has grown weary and disheartened. He’s afraid and uncertain. He says to the wise wizard, Gandalf...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 16, 2012 |
I grew up in Atlanta—Martin Luther King, Jr.’s hometown—during the most intense days of the civil rights movement. The center of the movement was in Atlanta’s “Sweet Auburn” district, a vibrant African-American business and professional district, where the Ebenezer...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 10, 2012 |
I surely understand the opening lines of Edward Hirsch’s poem, “Self Portrait”: I lived between my heart and my head, like a married couple who can’t get along. . . My head says: “I think.” My heart says, “I feel.” Head says, “I’ve concluded”; heart says, “I wonder.”...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 31, 2011 |
Thresholds can be frightening. Our ancient ancestors felt that thresholds were dwelling places for evil spirits. They believed that stepping on a threshold made them vulnerable to the spirits which lurked there, so they were careful to avoid them. Often, they posted...
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