by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Apr 24, 2019 | Reflections |
A favorite poem of mine by Wendell Berry, “The Mad Farmer Manifesto,” describes what life looks like in the wake of the overwhelming events of Easter and its story of resurrection. Berry imagines how we would act differently if we truly believed in resurrection, truly...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Apr 16, 2019 | Reflections |
These weeks in April usher in the major religious holidays of Passover and Easter, when the Jewish tradition marks its central experience of liberation from slavery and the ensuing journey to the Promised Land, and the Christian tradition marks its central experience...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Mar 12, 2019 | Reflections |
The season of Lent is underway in traditional churches, along with the tired jokes about doing without chocolate and other small excesses for the next six weeks. While giving up something can always be a useful exercise at any time, helping me see where my attachments...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Feb 12, 2019 | Reflections |
One of my Christmas gifts from a friend was a copy of Barbara Kingsolver’s newest novel Unsheltered. Since finishing it, I find myself thinking quite a lot about a primary theme in the novel, a theme given expression in debates among the characters and in...
by Dr. Kathy Hurt | Feb 7, 2019 | Reflections |
More than one commentator has noted how we seem to have entered a time of not only greater fear, but a different response to fear than has usually been present. History presents us with national leaders who urged people to be brave in confronting fear, to refuse to...
