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The Gift Must Always Move
Many of you may know Lewis Hyde’s much-loved book The Gift, but I only became acquainted with it this year and I found it utterly compelling. Praised by Annie Dillard, David Foster Wallace, and a host of other artists and thinkers, The Gift demonstrates that some of the most important things in life, including art itself, do not thrive in the cash economy but inhabit a separate and invaluable space. In the cash economy, exchanges do not involve true connection—but gifts forge a bond between giver and recipient....
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Giving Thanks
As it is Thanksgiving Day, I thought I might take this opportunity to pop out from behind the curtain and share a few brief words with you, including a bit of news and a word of thanks. We're now a year and a half into this literary experiment....
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Writing the Symphony
On behalf of the staff and faculty of the SPU MFA program, I’d like to offer a warm welcome to all the friends and family of the graduates—including a number of alumni—who have come here to celebrate this special day. I am going to confess to you that it is a little harder for me today to maintain the sort of....
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30 Seconds Away
St. Ireneus of Lyons, writing in 185 AD, said: “Gloria Dei vivens homo.” “The glory of God is man fully alive.” This sentence has haunted me ever since I heard it many years ago. What does it mean? Ireneus wrote those words in the context of his attack on the heresy of Gnosticism, which held that the....
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To Transform Looking into Loving
There have been numerous studies in recent years about the decline of reading—such as those promulgated by Dana Gioia at the National Endowment for the Arts, backed by hard statistics and unassailable analysis. But nothing makes my heart sink more than when a great piece of writing is misunderstood by those who ought to....
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Issue 71
Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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