But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to a political ideology and various Christian denominations and para-church organizations as special interest gr...
In the seeker-church movement the emphasis away from the use and explication of creedal confession is obvious, since the whole point is to focus on the 'felt-needs' of the person in the pew - especially the felt-needs of nonbelievers. The rationale i...
As a species, tragedy dwells within us all. We push it to the back of our thoughts, but it is never so far gone that it cannot return, crashing and writhing into our souls: a rogue wave overturning a boat on a calm day. Tragedy is never more than a b...
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I wanted to write something that made no linear sense. None. Zero. Something that was 87% pure nonsense, 12% pure alcohol, and 3% orange juice, for a chaser. That formula is accurate, give or take 2% for the milk. In my experience, comedy is 2/3rds t...
In his Preface to the 1892 edition of Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hardy warns the reader that ‘a novel is an impression, not an argument’. However, the text offers several explanations of Tess’s tragedy; social, psychological, hereditary, and f...
Like so many of our neighbors who latched onto tragedy to stand out from the crowd -- slavery, incest, a suicide -- I had exaggerated the ethnic chip on my shoulder for effect. I've learned since that tragedy is not to be hoarded. Only the untouched,...
Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?
Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well.
A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
