Posts Tagged literature
If you’ve read my blog more than two or three times, you already know how delighted I am by religious literature, especially religious literature that I haven’t come across before. Nothing reminds me that Christianity isn’t just a twenty-first-century American phenomenon like discovering a pie
10.28.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
This was posted last year around prefrosh weekend, but seemed equally applicable to freshmen who have just come on campus. Enjoy! - The editors.
My dear Wigglesworm,
It has come to my attention that your charge has been admitted to Harvard, and that you are inordinately proud of this devel
09.8.2010| Featured, The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
Recently I’ve been reading The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins, which is an excellent book and one of the first detective stories ever. Much could be written on it, but my attention was drawn to one Miss Clack, a minor character who provides a bit of necessary comic relief through her ludicrous actio
07.29.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
1. I AM the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneat
07.17.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
When I was about fifteen, I wrote an essay entitled “The gods are unjust” about Oedipus Rex, the ancient play by Sophocles – it is one of the great Greek Tragedies, replete with chorus and tragic hero. It was my first tragedy. Oedipus was condemned by Apollo’s prophecy, related by an oracle,
06.28.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
The following is a true report of the happenings of 24th June 2010 in Central Park, Rochester, Minnesota, in my interactions with various personages of the Words Players, a very young but accomplished group of players who make it their business to put on the works of William Shakespeare and other ex
06.26.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is how to love, and be loved in return - The Sitar that Speaks the Truth, Moulin Rouge
In Romans 12:3, Paul calls us to look at ourselves with sober judgment – to think truthfully and honestly about who we are. Then he calls to love one another, and specifi
06.18.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang