The Girl Who Was Saturday

There are worse hymns than “The King of Love my Shepherd Is,” a text based closely on Psalm 23 (or 22? the DRV has ruined my sense of ps...

My long-running obsession with justice and judgment (fed by the current dissertation chapter) has made the words pop out everywhere; Scr...

Christians throughout the world recently celebrated the feast of the Epiphany, some on the traditional date of Jan. 6 (the “Twelfth Night” ...

John 1:4: “What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race.” —from the USCCB readings for the...

Today we got some fresh farmer’s market fruits and vegetables from a neighbor.   And today, researching how to use three enormous and ve...

Paul Cantor's worthwhile lectures on Shakespeare's political plays have made good dinner-prep listening for me for the past month or...

Part 2 of a series.   Part 1 is here and the latter four parts are here , here , here , and here . My claim in the previous post m...

Part 1 of a series.  Part 2 is here and the latter four parts are here , here , here , and here . There is, reportedly, a new ...