Sam here with Chapter 6 of Lewis Hyde’s The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. Pull up a chair and join the conversation, or find links to previous discussions below...
Psalm 59 begins as David’s cry to be rescued from his enemies. He asks the Lord to punish them because of their evil ways. By the end of the psalm, however, David shifts...
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Marcus here. Some days I love the internet. Some days I don't. ...
Exodus 21:12 begins a series of laws having to do with capital punishment. In general, these laws are meant to protect the...
Sam here. When we started this conversation about Lewis Hyde's book, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, I mentioned that it challenges me. I’ve repeated as much throughout our...
The Ten Commandments set the stage for the specific, detailed laws of the Hebrew Torah. The first of these laws addresses a...
A Jesuit seminarian walks into J.P. Morgan. . . . If that sounds like the start of a joke, in the case...
If you’ve ever traveled to a foreign country, you know the feeling of being out of place in a different world. All around you are signs in a language you don’t understand. The...
After the Lord finished delivering the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, they were appropriately impressed. In fact, they were afraid because of the awesome spectacle associated with God’s...
Sam here. We’re reading The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde. Chapter 4 is about the bonds created through gift exchange and I can’t help thinking about...
The basic meaning of the eighth commandment is clear. It forbids taking something that doesn’t belong to you without the owner’s permission...
Adultery plagues our society today. It seems that not a day goes by that we don’t hear of some government official caught...
"I can't believe I have to patch rust spots on the truck again." "Didn't you just do them?" asked Julie, remembering my complaining from last time."Yeah, like six months ago." I began pacing...
Several months ago, I was offered a very exciting CEO position with a fast-growth company in a glamorous industry. At least it seemed so at the time, compared to my current job. We...
When we read the sixth commandment in the New Living Translation, “You must not murder,” we wonder whatever happened to the “Thou...
"Now where has my painter gone?" the man wondered as he looked out the window. He'd hired a college student to paint...
A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you choose, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and...
My high school friends were a microcosm of school society. Eric was a photographer and yearbook editor. Ann was a leader in the marching band. Bill was the lead actor in theatre productions. Laura...
Today, many families are facing the challenges of financial uncertainty. Much of the current population has not lived through a widespread financial...
