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Items tagged word

• Reflecting on the incarnation

  An exploration of the interplay among language, the body and the incarnation.

• Movie lines that intersect the spiritual dimension

  Movie lines, like Bible verses, can contain kernels of truth that allude to a truth larger than a few words can express.

• In the beginning was the Word

  Charting the history of a relationship with Scripture.

• Remembering how

  A recounting of lately stumbled-upon wisdom regarding grace, redemption and forgiveness.

• Lies and the impeccable word

  What the parable of the rich man and Lazarus can teach us about discerning lies.

• Painting the Incarnation

  On the incarnation of ideas into art in Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel, My Name is Asher Lev.
  

• When the Word became that figure in the mirror

  An adult wrestles with youthful images of identity.

• Recovering joy

  What can we do when we discover our joy has been stolen from us?

• Company’s here!

  Word play leads to serious food play when it comes to communion.

• High fidelity

  On reading the Bible with Johnny Cash during Lent.

• Page turning and the illusion of permanence

  A defense of the book and, above all, the living Word.

• Writing to remember

  On the loss of love letters in a technological age.

• Birth announcements

  On the incarnate words that call our worlds into being.

• Counterspeaking contradictions

  On the paradoxes of lament and hope, destruction and creation, failure and commitment.

• Beware of book lust

  Reflecting on the ways books demand our lives.

• “The Word became flesh,” and why Derrida can’t do a thing about it

  The marvel of the incarnation through the lens of grad school.

• Growing up with the Word

  From rote memorization to lectio divina: a journey with the God of the Bible.