The Writer’s Almanac

This is something I listen to everyday. The Writer’s Almanac is a daily email with Garrison Keilor as the reader. He reads a selection of poetry plus reviews a bevy of authors born on that day. It’s about five minutes and a treasure house of must reads, memorable poems and a general all-purpose way to keep in the mood for reading, exploring and wondering. I can’t figure out why I am liking poetry more and more. I think it is because my soul is opening up and prose alone can’t get at what I am getting in touch with. Or maybe it’s my 1960s experiences coming back to haunt me, the me-before-I-got-down-to-business. He’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!! I guess I should listen with wine and cheese rather than fritos.

Will there be sex in heaven?

Never enters your mind, right?  Yeh, right!!!! So here is an article by Peter Kreeft, one of my favorite authors. He teaches philosophy at Boston College and converted to Roman Catholicism during or right after college from an evangelical community. He knows evangelicalism and can minister to us from the outside, so to speak. He writes a lot for InterVarsity Press, and I have used a lot of his thought in my series on Heaven. If I could, I would study philosophy at BC and be mentored by Kreeft.

Who is really buying in?

I am surprised!!!! No, relieved!!!! Through my blogging community and the recovery community I am getting in touch with a whole lot of evangelicals who are admitting that the easy answers and quick fixes are not enough. We aren’t a blind pack of sheep. There is a whole of thinking going on out there and pastors with three point sermon outlines aren’t in control of that conversation….