suffering

My Brooklyn Friday – Plague Epistle VI

My Brooklyn Friday – Plague Epistle VI

Yesterday was the first day this plague overran my mental defenses. I sat in my chair for long spells staring. Time languished and curdled with disuse. I felt like I was waiting for something that would not leave. I heard church bells as I looked for my car, only to find that it had been

Writing through Plague – Plague Epistle V

Writing through Plague – Plague Epistle V

If there is one thing to do to pass one's time isolated during plague, it's writing... What is it about plague that compels us to write about it? "Writing through Plague - Plague Epistle V"

Feeding the American Moloch – Plague Epistle IV

Feeding the American Moloch – Plague Epistle IV

Beware Republicans and their devotion to that child-devouring idol, Moloch! I am reading First Things' R.R. Reno, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Glenn Beck, and other conservative luminaries recommend abandoning the elderly to the plague to preserve their American way of life. How much more blatantly can such soulless imperialism devour human flesh and frailty?

Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

Alone Together – Plague Epistle I

I am in Brooklyn, New York and I am writing a bleak theology while cloistered with the rest of my city. I do not know what these epistles, these letters, these dispatches are to become. But I am writing them, because they give me relief and we are alone together in this time of real uncertainty.

Remember The White Rose. Fight Fascism.

Remember The White Rose. Fight Fascism.

Today in 1943 at 5:00 pm, Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their friend Christoph Probst were beheaded by the Nazis for their activities with The White Rose non-violent resistance movement. It would be over two more years before the Nazis were defeated. Yet again, fascism is on the rise. In our frustrating and frustrated