W.H. Auden
Doing the Right Thing for the Right Reasons May Sound Ideal, But We Can Never Be Sure We We’ve Done so Adequately.
“Alone, Alone, About a Dreadful Wood / Of Conscious Evil Runs a Lost Mankind”
God Will Cheat No One, not Even the World of Its Triumph
1. Today many of us are looking for clarity amidst the fraying strands of daily […]
The conclusion of a three-part series. Read the others here. Beloved, we are always in […]
Continuing from last week’s first part. Kierkegaard once (indirectly) wrote that it is an edifying […]
1. First up, Tullian Tchividjian posted a reflection on his remarkable grandfather, the late Billy […]
A passage from W.H. Auden’s posthumously published The Prolific and the Devourer, which comes to […]
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too […]
Writing for The Chimera in the summer of 1943, W.H. Auden let fly this zinger, […]