David Bentley Hart on baseball and liturgical memory is a fun read.
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“From the grave, grief leaches up through our feet into the soul and streaks ache across it like rust. Heaven beams gently, unobtrusive but real, and the heart glows with yearning, homesick for a paradise it has never seen.” —Isaiah Mitchell
“If Martin Luther King Jr. invites collective struggle to transform the political world, to end racism, Howard Thurman invites interior struggle to transform the self. There is no need for a choice between the two.” —Vincent W. Lloyd
“Genealogy is not simply about filling in blanks. It is about confronting the moral weight of what those blanks represent. Every missing name asks a question: Who decided this life did not matter enough to record?” —Carolyn Haliburton Carter
A wonderful and clear-eyed essay on probably my favorite city in the United States ❤️🔥
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When the Plough people asked me this "Who is the American Homer?" click-bait question, I said I couldn't comment, because the question was a bit of a muddle: who is "great"/"canonical" is different from "who is Homer?". Obviously Homer can't be prose, and the US is far too young to have a Homer.