Archive for April, 2008
Next Week Ruminations
Now that the Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin College is fading into the rearview mirror, it seems like an appropriate time to ruminate a little on what the weekend was like, how this first blog experiment went and what others are saying about the 2008 FFW.
First, this blog. When we dove into this [...]
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Tags: Calvin College, Chris Meehan, Edward Gilbreath, Festival of Faith & Writing, Jeffrey Overstreett, Nicole Baart, Phil de Haan
Finishing with Falsani
I’ve enjoyed Cathleen Falsani’s religion column in the Chicago Sun Times for a few years now. So I was looking forward to her coming to the 2008 Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin College. I wasn’t so thrilled when I saw she was slated to speak at 8:30 am on Saturday morning. Yikes. What [...]
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Tags: Big Lebowski, Calvin College, Cathleen Falsani, Coen Brothers, Dude, Festival of Faith and Writing, Grace
Acedia…so what?
I remember shopping in a bookstore in Moscow several years back and picking up an English-language book called Twelve Stories of Russia, A Novel: I Guess. I couldn’t help but buy the book because nothing can be more interesting to an American living in Russia than a book written by an American living in Russia [...]
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Tags: Acedia, Evagrius Ponticus, sloth
No, this isn’t an indictment directed at the other bloggers on this site. They’re doing a wonderful job with their posts on Festival sessions. Actually, I’m just repeating what Zondervan acquisitions editor Angela Scheff and writer Shauna Niequist said in a packed 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning session. What they said at the very beginning of [...]
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Tags: Angela Scheff, editing, Shauna Niequist, Zondervan
Art for art’s sake
It wasn’t first time I had viewed “Beauty of the Spirit,” the exhibition of paintings by artists and illustrator Kadir Nelson at the Center Art Gallery. I had gone to see the show soon after it opened. It was, however, the first time I had bought a book there and had it autographed by the [...]
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