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By David Pettit The problem with many poems, my instructor explained, is certainty. The poet tries too hard to say something; is too sure of
David Pettit
August 16, 2018
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By David Pettit The problem with many poems, my instructor explained, is certainty. The poet tries too hard to say something; is too sure of
Are you a person that has an answer for everything? Jemar Tisby, an American historian, wrote a meditation entitled “The People Who Don’t Have Any
If missions are to be faithful, they must be willing to relinquish certainty, confront patriarchy and racism, and place human flourishing—especially that of children—at the
I spent a day with the legendary basketball coach John Wooden once. He was 93-years-old at the time. Yes, I know that I am shamelessly
In the summer of 1843, as Isabella Van Wagenen set out on the road as Sojourner Truth, Orestes Brownson was publishing a series of articles
An art gallery downtown. Makoto Fujimura reads from The Four Quartets, testifies to what T.S. Eliot has meant to him. Tells of reading the poem
Twenty-two years ago on a sunny day in Indiana at First United Methodist Church, my daughter was baptized. It was a beautiful liturgy, where a
When I was I college, I lived for three years on the Honors Floor, an intentional living-learning floor in the dorms for students who were,
This writing refers to two pieces of legislation recently supported and signed into law by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. Senate File 538 prohibits medical personnel