2020 - Comment Magazine

Apr 30, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

When the Past Has No Place

The power and peril of examining personal history.

Apr 23, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

In the Shadow of Memory

“The act of imagination is bound up with memory.” —Toni Morrison

Apr 16, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

The Stories We Tell

Discerning history in all its multitudes.

Apr 9, 2020 Essay

The Witness of the Weak Centres

Belonging, friendship, and prayer in the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Mar 25, 2020 Essay

Good Birth, Good Death

Reflections on my thirty-ninth birthday.

Mar 20, 2020 Editorial

The Great Reset

Making way for a world remade.

Mar 19, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

WWhat am I looking for? An out of date announcement of my own death? —Stephen Maturin via Patrick O'BrienI see it most clearly the morning after a late night, or at the end of a long and tiresome day. I straighten from the bow I take when I wash my face, I take a...

Mar 12, 2020 Essay The Stories We Tell

A Living Memory

Amalek, forgetting, and the lessons of Jewish memory.

Mar 5, 2020 Essay The Tribes That Bind

Community + God: Inextricable?

I’ve been thinking about community for a good twenty years now; around the same amount of time that I’ve been thinking about God. I realize now that my ponderings on these notions are actually one and the same; my search for community has always really been about my...

Feb 27, 2020 Poetry The Tribes That Bind

Lost Word: Tribe

tribe noun \ ˈˈtrīb \ a people to be together who we cannot be alone. Tribe is the place we live breathe and have our very (human) being together. We were born to ///be very whole, ///be very loved ///be very known. We long to feel the sweet serenade of love...

Year: 2020

When the Past Has No Place

In the Shadow of Memory

The Stories We Tell

The Witness of the Weak Centres

Good Birth, Good Death

The Great Reset

Memento Mori

A Living Memory

Community + God: Inextricable?

Lost Word: Tribe

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