by Guy Sayles | Nov 26, 2008 |
Thanksgiving is upon us, but some of us are not feeling as grateful as we think we should feel. We recognize an obligation to be grateful, but that recognition does not, by itself, make us feel grateful. Telling us we ought to feel grateful when we don’t is like...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 20, 2008 |
When psychiatrist and writer Robert Coles was still in medical school, he had a fifthenn year old, patient, Phil, who was suffering from polio. Both of the Phil’s parents were dead: his father had been killed in WWII, and his mother had died in an automobile accident....
by Guy Sayles | Nov 14, 2008 |
Thomas Kelly was a mid-2oth Century Quaker mystic and writer who is best know for his now-classic book, A Testament of Devotion. In it, Kelly makes this simple and profound distinction: “Too many well-intentioned people are so preoccupied with the clatter of...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 12, 2008 |
I have been reading a provocative book (about which I have drawn few conclusions, except that it should not be ignored) by James W. Douglass, entitled JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters (Orbis Books, 2008).Douglass includes as an appendix to the...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 7, 2008 |
Welcome to From the Intersection. In this space, I’ll reflect on the intriguing and often complex relationship between “culture” and “faith.” The culture in which I live and on which I’ll reflect is, in one way, the same culture in...
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