by the Night Writer When I was younger my athletic endeavors gravitated toward the whacking and smacking games like football and hockey. Even when I played the more “finesse” games like soccer and basketball, my style tended to be more physical; in all games I was never going to be the one to make the [...]
by the Night Writer A little over a year ago I started going down to the Red Wing Correctional Facility a couple of times a month to host a chapel service for the men. Red Wing is primarily a youth facility, referred to by Bob Dylan in his song “The Walls of Red Wing”, but [...]
by the Night Writer ELINOR: Surely you don’t compare your conduct with his? MARIANNE: No. I compare it with what it ought to have been. I compare it with yours. – from “Sense and Sensibility” In Part 1 I outlined the reasons and the need to pursue self-development, but also the risks of emulating someone [...]
by the Night Writer Note: if you’re looking for the Monday Anorex[st]ic Inaneymous, scroll down to the next post. About this time last year, an emerging star and influential blogger in the Self Development field announced that his personal journey had brought him to such heights of self-awareness and emotional and spiritual development that it [...]
“Now I’m thinkin’: it could mean you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. I’d like that. But [...]
Those were not the words of Pope John Paul II, but of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed 60 years ago today by the Nazis in the closing days of World War II. I thought of these words this week as the world honored the Pope and I listened to commentators in every media try to [...]
