Recently a friend sent me a poem, the religious hymn ‹Lord of the Dance› by Sydney Carter (The United Methodist...
‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day...
There are 10,000 things in every household – that’s how it is often said. No one has counted them, and it is unclear whether a mineral cabinet accounts one or a hundred times, a library one or a thousand times. Nevertheless, many things surround a personality, like second clothing or...
Ethical AI? “[T]o understand something or someone so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend,...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
We do not read in order to collect information, but rather to learn and practice reading, in every sense. On any day, read only as much as you can work through, inwardly, in the time before the next reading. The slower you read, the greater will be the possibility that...
Car, motorcycle, electric bike, and on foot – these are the different methods of transport available to me for my...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made ‹Friday› a slave. He gains a human friend. When a young acquaintance suddenly had a tumor in her head, all our quarrels became null and void. Our trivialities and emotional...
A walk in the city. A coffee in hand. Looking around slowly. Almost invisible, with a magic hood, barely two...
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
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