devotional – A Bookish Charm

Pride and Purgation

As I expressed in an earlier post, I have come to love Dante’s Commedia more and more through rereading. In a manner almost scriptural, he

“It’s the boats!” On a walk with my mother along the Oceanside pier just a few days ago, we saw “the boats.” I knew exactly

“IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM” The Latin for “in the beginning was the Word” is inscribed on the gates of my college at St. Andrew’s. Each

An audio recording of this article is available here: As an accompanist, one of my favorite things to do when a rehearsal needs some comic

My current favorite song—“Shape of Love” by Passenger—keeps popping up in my Spotify playlists and I never skip it. Its opening chords make me smile

In rereading the Book of Job, I once more find it both wonderful and troubling. Job is, at its core, a terrifying book: a man

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