Where else would Ray Kinsella have built his Field of Dreams except in an Iowa cornfield? Am I right? A baseball diamond where the ghosts of the past could come for healing and restoration – for their own and for the living? Had to be in the heartland, where the solid goodness of America is […]
Month: February 2017
The We of Me – Carson McCullers week continues
Don’t we long to be fully engaged? I’ve checked in with Carson McCullers a couple of times this week on the occasion of her 100th birthday. She’s often thought of as a prophet of loneliness, but I wonder if what she expressed in her writing was more a longing to be released from the silo […]
More Carson…
I have thought of Carson McCullers’ economic insights as underdeveloped, but here’s a testimony to her observations in that area from the Director of the Carson McCullers Center… https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1249-nick-norwood-what-carson-mccullers-knew-about-cotton-mills-and-misery
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Carson McCullers Week, part 2
Post 2 for Carson McCullers 100th Birthday Week. Things to expect when you read Carson McCullers: late night diners, music, triangles of frustrated love, circuses, outsiders, and wanderers. In her two best works, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Member of the Wedding, you also find a fiery, pre-teen girl trying to make sense of […]
“A World Intense & Strange”: Carson McCullers Week
Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of my new favorite writer — Carson McCullers. My relationship with her began with an audio book of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and quickly followed with lapping up all of her novels. I’ll share some thoughts through the week on her basic themes, […]
It’s about that Church Building. It’s Got to Go.
Beginning in the late 19th century, the Methodists began settling down. What had been a movement of house groups, camp meetings, and simple preaching houses, set up shop on every Main Street and country crossroad and made themselves a presence with substantial stained-glassed buildings. In the 1950s and 1960s we built again during that […]
Heartlands 