Gold leaves of autumn New buds in spring Summer’s warm magic Winter’s cold ring— Coming and going Time’s rise and fall Years building ages Time touching all— So our lives mingle So our lives blend
Twenty-five years ago, some futurists foresaw a major global crisis arriving in about the year 2020. In 1995 I published EarthCurrents: The Struggle for the World’s Soul. The book discussed a variety of issues, including
Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis was alarmed by the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. In 1931 his journalist wife had interviewed Hitler. Now it was 1935. Lewis decided he’d better write a novel warning
Marina Warner has written an intriguing book, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford: 2014, 201 pp.). The book plunges deep into the well of fairy tales. From various angles it
Most people these days know something about Pocahontas. Some even know the true story of her conversion to Christianity, and perhaps of the catechetical instruction she went through. But most people don’t know what happened
Perhaps you heard them discussing it on the radio: MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle’s new book, Reclaiming Conversation (Penguin, 2015, 436 pp.). The discussion caught my ear because of this quote: “Studies
“What are you reading now?” someone asked. Here’s a summary: Michelangelo: His Epic Life, by British art critic Martin Gayford (London: Penguin, 2013, 662 pp., with many illustrations) Years ago I read The Agony and
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. 437 pp. — Barbara Kingsolver is a fine writer. One can learn a lot about writing just from carefully reading her superbly crafted work. She
You’ll remember Howard Snyder from his book review of “Thinking Fast and Slow” that appeared on the Seedbed Feed back in February. Here he has shared the rest of his reading list for the summer.
