Allen Tate

Allen Tate on Poetry from “The Symbolic Imagination.” The Essays of Four Decades. p 428.

Drawn and thought at San Ignatius of Loyola in Rome.  March 2005.

Peter Clark: The Story of My Life

A group of men and I told our story of how we met Christ last night. I gathered my thoughts by writing it out. Here it is. Early Life I was very fortunate to be born into such a wonderful family. Not perfect but I have a wonderful heritage of Godly men and women that […]

The [Bible] isn’t written in order simply to “tell us about God” in the abstract. It isn’t designed primarily to provide information, to satisfy the inquiring mind. It’s written to tell the story of what GOD HAS DONE, IS DOING AND WILL DO ABOUT EVIL. N.T. Wright. Evil and the Justice of God. 45.

Day One of Rehearsals for Ryan Culwell’s Heroes on the Radio. The quote from Robert Penn Warren wound up on the same page, but seems fitting in retrospect.  Fitting and true.

Written at Harry’s Bar, Venice, Italy – March 2008

The unfolding of Your words gives light; It imparts understanding to the simple. I open my mouth and pant, because I long for Your commandments. Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is Your way with those who love Your name. Psalm 119:130-132

From The Writer’s Almanac.   Read by Garrison Keillor on May 2, 2007. If you have 5 minutes to kill and want to know something about the history of the King James Bible.