Some good reading here, as usual from @plough.bsky.social.
David Bentley Hart’s article is a worthwhile read, even for non-baseball fans.
My poem "tohu va-vohu" is published in @plough.bsky.social
www.plough.com/articles/toh...
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will🕊️Jane Eyre
"The words...are bold...but within the context of the narrative, the words – are even more astonishing." @karenswallowprior.bsky.social
www.plough.com/articles/jan...
“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
"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...
"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...
A marvelous little essay on history, transcendence, & perhaps a bit of faith.
www.plough.com/articles/hal...
"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...
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...
Tohu va-vohu is the Hebrew phrase at the beginning of Genesis to describe the earth.
