Posts Tagged ‘writing prompt’
The Place of the Imagination in Spiritual Experience
April 8, 2019
Does the imagination play a role in spiritual experience, I asked. How about in religious experience? On a Thursday morning late in the semester, a dozen undergraduates–honors students–and I gathered in a circle in the Laurel Forum, a room with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves along one wall, another wall all windows opening onto the campus quad. A…
Read MoreWitness and Permission: On Seeing and Being Seen in Life and Art
March 21, 2019
This winter has been a difficult season. I emerge from it wondering about the edges of my griefs and my joys, feeling around for my moorings, realizing in a new way the isolation of the single parent, the reality of mortality for aging and ill family members, the uneven texture of heartbreak, how it feels…
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