Some good reading here, as usual from @plough.bsky.social.
David Bentley Hart’s article is a worthwhile read, even for non-baseball fans.
“At the very least, [baseball] offers us a glimpse into paradise – into childhood’s innocence, into Eden, into what Nicholas of Cusa called the walled garden of the divine essence – all under the aspect of play; and that is a great blessing.”— David Bentley Hart, for @plough.bsky.social
My poem "tohu va-vohu" is published in @plough.bsky.social
www.plough.com/articles/toh...
"Do not, therefore, close your eyes before the sufferings of your neighbors. Do not fear that it will destroy your happiness if you live in sympathy with them."
Emil Fuchs
www.plough.com/articles/suf...
"The tendency of the church is perpetually to be covering up its own naked simplicity, forgetting that the truth is never so beautiful as when it stands in its own unadorned, God-given glory."
Charles Spurgeon
www.plough.com/articles/pra...
"The disciples were, so to speak, pretty much like the rest of us after all – a collection of no-good cowards and weaklings."
Shusaku Endo
www.plough.com/articles/fol...
I have a soft spot for both Thérèse of Lisieux and Friedrich Nietzsche, but this Karl Stern article is wonderful:
www.plough.com/en/topics/li...
"Oh, you may think I am being hyperbolic, but I am convinced I am right. To be clear, I am talking about baseball in particular, not sport in general." #DBH
www.plough.com/articles/run...
"Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover;" Hannah Arendt
www.plough.com/articles/the...
A marvelous little essay on history, transcendence, & perhaps a bit of faith.
www.plough.com/articles/hal...
Richard Guisinger
Dori Moody
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Ron Hogan
Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH)
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There is only one truly redemptive form of memory: baseball.
