It’s not quite Advent yet, but a friend of mine saw Christmas lights being put up the other day, so I suppose that it’s not entirely out of place for me to disc...
On Tuesday night I went to an amazing lecture by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York. He had been invited to Harvard to give the Noble Lectures at Memorial Chu...
I wish I had a quick, easy way to deal with fear. I wish that whenever I felt that inability to take a deep breath, that murky roiling of the stomach, that tigh...
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...
How long has it been since you’ve listened to any part of Handel’s Messiah? If you had to think about your answer at all, the correct response is probably ‘too ...
Recently I’ve been thinking quite a lot about unanswered prayer—you know, the perennial question of what to think of a God who says “Knock, and the door will be...
The Rule of Benedict can seem very alien to us twenty-first-century Christians. It is probably the most famous set of guidelines for the founding of monasteries...
A few days ago I happened to read one of the original versions of Beauty and the Beast. I love fairy tales, especially when they haven’t been chopped up and mad...
I realize, new freshmen, that you have been getting quite a spate of good advice from the Fishtank these past few weeks, and that it may be getting quite odious...
Well, here we are, at the beginning of another school year. For some of you reading this blog, it is your first fall at Harvard, and you are filled with excitem...
