HeyJaredEx Voto
Essays on religion, politics, and the uses of theology in public life. For inquiries, contact karenparkwriting@gmail.com
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Audio: Annie Dillard Took God Seriously (opens the original)
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This is the audio for an essay about Annie Dillard, who died earlier this month, and about Holy the Firm, my favorite of her books and, really, my favorite book, period. I taught it to undergraduates for twenty years, and every time I returned to it, I found something I hadn’t noticed before.Holy the Firm is a very short and pretty difficult book about God, suffering, beauty, attention, and the question of whether and how we are connected to one another. If you want to read the essay “Annie Dill
Annie Dillard Took God Seriously (opens the original)
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My favorite book is Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm. It’s a hard one to recommend, and it isn’t for everyone, but my undergrads were tasked with reading it every semester and despite being confounded at first, it was most commonly listed as their favorite book.It was written in 1975, just after Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She wrote Holy the Firm not in the
Reading Holy the Firm: A Three-Session Seminar (opens the original)
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Desecration is Still the Point (opens the original)
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There Trump was in the window of Air Force One, looking at a curiously specific presentation board bearing the words KENNEDY CENTER DEMOLITION.<img alt="" class="
Audio: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero (opens the original)
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Here is the audio version of my 9/11 essay, “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero.” I wrote about years of teaching September 11 through the lens of theology rather than religion—and about the remarkable PBS Frontline documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, which I assigned to my students for years.Read the essay here: https://karenelizabethpark.substack.com/p/faith-and-doubt-at-ground-zeroAnd if you have time this weekend, I really recommend watching the documentary which is linked below.<div cla
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