despair

On the Shelf

Bone Dead, and Rising

Vincent van Gogh and the Self Before God

by Charles Davidson

Van Gogh's dark night

Sep 22, 2011 by Debra Bendis

The world will always be fascinated with Vincent van Gogh. It doesn't matter that his sunflowers are on mugs, t-shirts, calendars and billboards, or that psychologists have spent years studying every facet of van Gogh's emotional and mental instability.

Living by the Word

A howl of despair

Sunday, June 24

Psalm 42

Jun 06, 2001 by Peter S. Hawkins

The Psalms have always functioned as a book of common prayer. But there is also a long history of turning to the Psalter as a sourcebook for poetry. It is not difficult to see why. Many of the psalms foreground the act of speech or song—the activity of utterance itself—as the chief end of everything that has breath.

Faith Matters

Some kind of tomorrow

Mar 07, 2001 by L. Gregory Jones

How can hope be sustained when traumatic memories of conflict or oppression haunt a person or group? This question has become central in a course I am teaching with an African-American colleague. In “Remembrance and Reconciliation,” we are examining the legacies of racism and racial division in South Africa and the U.S.