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Month: September 2020

27 September 2020Alex Joyner

Reading The Sound and the Fury in 2020

In 1929, William Faulkner had a keen sense that it was all falling in of its own weight. When he published The Sound and the Fury, now recognized as an American classic, it confused folks more than wowed them. The first section, written from the perspective of Benjy Compson, the intellectually-challenged son of a white […]

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18 September 20205 October 2020Alex Joyner

2 John: A Translation

The Second Letter of John A translation by Alex Joyner* From the elder to the Chosen Lady and her children, whom I love in the Truth. And I am not alone in this, but I also join all those who have known the Truth, because the Truth abides in you and is with you unto […]

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15 September 202015 September 2020Alex Joyner

Poetry – There is a Moment Right Here

The greatest freedom is not to be found ahead—-in the land of what comes next. It’s not what we can slide into when we get past the moment we’re in. Because when the future gets here it will be the present and just as burdened by the expectation that the better day is the one […]

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6 September 202018 October 2020Alex Joyner

1 John: A Translation

The First Letter of John A translation by Alex Joyner* That which was from the beginning is also, believe it!, that which we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, the Logos of Life—we beheld and held it with these trembling hands. The Life was revealed and we have seen and bear […]

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