Well now. Heather King, whose book Shirt of Flame awaits on my e-reader, and whose memoir Redeemed I once had the happy occasion to review, has gone and written about abortion – her own. I will be reading it this Lent. Thought I’d mention it here.
Well now. Heather King, whose book Shirt of Flame awaits on my e-reader, and whose memoir Redeemed I once had the happy occasion to review, has gone and written about abortion – her own. I will be reading it this Lent. Thought I’d mention it here.
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I thought I already posted this, but – I am planning to read this, too.
I think you did. Shirt of Flame sticks in the mind.
Well, I know Shirt of Flame has been mentioned before, but I don’t recall seeing anything about Poor Baby.
It all comes back now. I went to her blog just now and she has a pic of GRÜNEWALD’s famous alter piece on her current post. Makes sense.
“But this is most emphatically NOT the Christ whom we encounter at Isenheim and at Karlsruhe. The difference is obvious; 5,475 scourges turn a body red, not green – and Grünewald’s Christ is green. It is the corruption of the tomb that turns a body green. Grünewald’s Christ does not bleed; he rots. This is not, as Joris-Karl Huysmans fatuously claimed, ‘the Christ of Justin, Basil, Cyril, Tertullian, the Christ of the apostolic Church… the Christ of the afflicted, of the beggar, of all those on whose indigence and helplessness the greed of their brother battens;’ this is not their Christ at all. This is a Christ unknown to the mystics, unknown to the fathers, unknown to the poor and suffering; a Christ unknown to any Christian. It is a Christ who has never risen from the dead.”
I like Mitsui for the same reason I like Cubeland Mystic. They are, if not all flame, at least smoldering.
The cellist looks like Jim Carey playing the Grinch.
JOB
So, kindle is the only way to get this book, huh?
No chance for the rest of us tactile-spatio luddites, huh?
No way to simply bound the words in a more fitting and aesthetically pleasing format, huh?
Beauty will NOT save the world!
(And while I’m at it:I don’t give a rat’s ass what they said back there in seminary school, I look at ebooks and know in my heart of hearts, YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!)
JOB
Thank you for this post about a week ago, and since then I’ve finished Parched and about half of Redeemed. While it’s all good, I think she really hits her stride about Chapter 3 of Redeemed.
I’ve been reading this blog for a couple of weeks and spending so much time with the blog itself and its links that I might be in danger of losing my job. (I’m on my lunch hour at the moment.)
AMDG,
Janet
Oh, please don’t lose your job on account of us. We hate ourselves enough as it is. But thanks for reading!
Have you begun to read this yet? I’m curious to hear what you think?
AMDG,
Janet
Alas, not yet. My Lenten reading pile is large.
Rats. Well, I hope you will write about it when you finish it, which won’t take long at all.
My own Lenten reading, which was going to be Caryll Houselander, has been interruped by a week of reading nothing but Ms. King, and now I can’t decide whether to go on to Shirt of Flame, or return to my original plan.
AMDG,
Janet