Friday Links
March 31, 2023
Numinous Strangers by Lisa Wells
The Camino Voyage Documentary
Greg Wolfe on Randy Boyagoda’s Dante’s Indiana
Randy Boyagoda with Jennifer Frey on Original Prin and Dante's Indiana
John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14 read by John Harling
The Kierkegaard Poetry Competition
Numinous Strangers by Lisa Wells
“A pilgrimage begins in the heart, Ann says. You must first desire to make a sacred journey, then you must commit to your destination, “because it’s gonna get tough. You have to need to get there.” Cultivating an “openness to uncertainty” is the third component. A pilgrimage can’t be planned to the minute; you have to get out of the way and make room for divine intercession.”
Please read this essay. It is truly lovely, and a reminder that we are all on our own pilgrimage through “A strange and uncertain country, indeed.”
The Camino Voyage
Since we are already on the topic of pilgrimages…here’s a link to a review of the Irish documentary, The Camino Voyage, about a group of pilgrims “following the example of intrepid Irish pilgrims, who sailed from Ireland centuries ago to the city of A Coruña in North-West Spain prior to completing their final leg of the Camino by foot to Santiago de Compostela.” If you can watch the film, I highly recommend it.
Gregory Wolfe on Randy Boyagoda’s Dante’s Indiana
“Dante’s Indiana is about how religious people can succeed at almost completely emptying their faith of meaning, choosing spectacle over substance.What saves the new book from being yet another heavy-handed thumping on evangelical Christianity is that the narrative remains firmly centered in Prin’s own personal struggles.”
Randy Boyagoda with Jennifer Frey on Original Prin and Dante's Indiana
Randy Boyagoda was a recent guest on Jennifer Frey’s wonderful podcast, Sacred and Profane Love. The conversation is everything you want in a podcast: engaging, interesting, funny, deep, honest. Take a listen.
John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14 read by John Harling
Because it’s a good one for Lent and because it’s one of my favorite poems of all time.
The Kierkegaard Poetry Competition
Congratulations to first-place winner Hugh Savage for his poem “The Wreck of the København” and to Paul J. Pastor for his second-place poem “That Which Cannot Rest Content.” We’d also like to congratulate our four third-place winners: Jesse Keith Butler for his poem “Lightning Strikes Churches,” Nadine Ellsworth-Moran for her poem “Stealing Figs While on Holiday in Greece,” Fr. Stephen A. Gregg for his poem “Two-Step,” and Matthew Salyer for his poem “From the Papers of One Still Living.”
