Claire | February 10, 2010
“We don’t live in a coherent age. Walking through the culture is like walking through the surf after a battering storm, stepping through shards of insatiable consumerism, gaudy FunTime noise, self-indulgent weepiness, toilet humor, posturing nihilism. Things keep saying they?re important, but they turn out to be more loud than deep. Stepping around the shards [...]
Claire | February 7, 2010
MaryAnn, Aug. 13, 2009 “As the days of pregnancy are quickly coming to a close, I had the brief thought today that I might miss a bit of this season in my life. Not that I would want repetition of the nausea, vomiting, dietary restrictions, needle-pricking or this reality of a train running over my [...]
Claire | January 19, 2010
The key, I suggest, to dealing honestly with our desires without losing personal authenticity or genuine concern about others is to understand two facts about our desires. First, our desires, though energizing a complex variety of sinful directions, are related not only to our fallenness but also, and more profoundly, to our humanness. In other [...]
Claire | October 19, 2009
The older I get, the more I discover that there is one thing, and one thing only, that makes sense. Christ, and him crucified. Christ on the cross is one of the most baffling, counterintuitive, and sometimes even seemingly perverse events which has ever been presented to the human mind, and certainly, as wonderful and [...]
