Early on in our now almost sixty years of marriage, my wife, Laurel, and I were lucky enough to be able to stay for a couple of weeks in the elegant North Truro, Cape Cod beach-house of an affluent friend.Read More →
So my wife, Laurel, and I were sitting next to each other at the kitchen table in our old rural home in southwestern Maine recently – and I sent her an email. Given my failing ninety-year old brain, I tellRead More →
True. Nothing butters like a piece of toast in the morning. But I’m thinking of a state of mind. I once encountered this condition as an undergraduate in the nineteen-fifties when I took a philosophy course. In those days, self-styledRead More →
I once sat behind John Updike at a chamber music concert in an old mansion north of Boston. Sitting in the front row, he was a distraction. Not just because he was the famous author, but because he was soRead More →
I am all in favor of spirituality and of spiritual experience more generally. As a matter of fact, I have written a whole book about these matters, Before Nature: A Christian Spirituality (2014). But I’ve always shied away from anyRead More →