“Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that we are distant from God and then seek to make that distance into an intense experience.”
Read MoreI’m reading with pleasure the poet Christian Wiman’s memoir, My Bright Abyss: Meditations of a Modern Believer. With a poet’s gift for fresh words to express old ideas (“the hive-like certainties of churches”), he ruminates over his unlikely return to faith after decades away.
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