Nature’s Grace: Encountering The Tree of Life
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Seth Wieck | July 26, 2011
“Nature is shot through with grace, such that it is impossible to separate one from the other. Grace is not some alien force that occasionally intrudes into a closed system (“nature”). As G. M. Hopkins declared, “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” It is grace all the way down.” – Stewart Clem […]
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Renaming the Reader
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Seth Wieck | July 22, 2011
The Bible won’t be reduced to mere representations and symbols, although it has those. The Bible is much like the angel that Jacob wrestles, refusing to be pinned. Refusing to be named or seen completely. Able with a touch to ruin the reader and able to bless him forever. Even to rename the reader. And […]
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Seth Wieck | July 20, 2011
You can write what you know. But you can also write to figure things out. It’s the difference between chasing butterflies and pinning them to a board. It loses something when you catch them. Josh Ritter in an interview with Tom Ashbrook on NPR’s On Point.
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Seth Wieck | July 20, 2011
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one. The meaning of a story has to be embodied in it… . A story that is any good can’t be reduced, it can only […]
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The Baker and the Cupbearer
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Seth Wieck | July 19, 2011
(Rudiments of reading) Simply as a piece of literature, the Holy Bible is a remarkable feat. Many different authors writing many different genres across many different geographical locations and thousands of years anthologized into an unbelievably consistent and unified work of literature. Contained in each smaller narrative are layers that point to a much larger […]
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