by Brian Volck | Dec 25, 2017 | words
Καὶ ὁ Λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖνThe word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. (John 1:14) Christmas, 2017, a celebration of “the Word made flesh,” arrives even as the degradation of our discourse – the way we talk to one another – accelerates....
by Brian Volck | Aug 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
I read the following post at the Glen Workshop, on August 1, 2017. The essay originally appeared in the Good Letters blog associated with IMAGE magazine in June, 2010, under the title, “The Mutt and Me.” “Jaeger,” the dog mentioned...
by Brian Volck | Jun 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
“And here comes everybody-The closet renegadesThe weary, hungry soldiersFrom the children’s lost crusadeHere comes the restitutionWe’d all but given upThis evening we’re content believingThat love will be enough” Joe Henry, “Love is Enough” I can’t say...
by Brian Volck | Jan 31, 2017 | Accountability, hospitality, Malcolm Guite, poetry
My friend (and master of the sonnet form), Malcolm Guite, published the collection in which this poem appears in 2012. Inhospitality to strangers is nothing new. It may help to remember that “xenos,” the Greek word from which English derives...
by Brian Volck | Dec 5, 2016 | Indigenous peoples
I am an interested follower of US politics, and though I occasionally make provisional judgments on certain issues, I hope I’m not partisan in any conventional sense. The narrow and one-dimensional liberal-conservative spectrum so dominant in US political discourse...
