Neither/Nor:
Ruminations of a Spiritual Traveler

With apologies to Kierkegaard’s Either/Or, our general topic is the reflective Christian sailing in the sea of contemporary culture (and church). A cacophonous sea of competing claims and counter-claims, to which I often find myself responding “neither/nor.” But “what instead?” Aye, there’s the rub, matey. And that’s the white whale we pursue. Boats away!

Posts tagged Niebuhr

Noah, Marilynne Robinson, and Drowing Mothers

I gave a talk yesterday, at the invitation of the Bethel University art and English departments, on Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping. I called her, for me, a “wow” writer, meaning that I find myself frequently pausing after reading a passage and saying, sometimes out loud, “wow.”

Daniel TaylorDaniel TaylorMarch 20, 2013Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson, Niebuhr, Noah, shalom, tragedy Comments

Christian Realism and Pagan Virtues — The Tragic Sense of Life

Karl Bonhoeffer lost his eldest son in WWI. He lost two others—Dietrich and Klaus—in WWII, both for their participation in the plot to kill Hitler. He also lost the husbands of two daughters, plus many friends. Writing soon after hearing of the deaths of Dietrich and Klaus, he said of that loss, “We are sad, but also proud.”

Daniel TaylorDaniel TaylorSeptember 1, 2011Bonhoeffer, Christian realism, Niebuhr, pagan, tragic sense, virtueComment

Neither/Nor: Ruminations of a Spiritual Traveler

Neither/Nor:
Ruminations of a Spiritual Traveler