Remembering, Thinking, Imagining: Augustine, Anselm, and Rowan
Remembering the past, thinking in the present, and imagining the future all interweave.
Morning Diary of a Cathedral Canon
Within this heavenly place, experiences both ordinary and momentous found meaning.
Holy Spirit: Remembrancer
Refresh my memory, / With words of Moses and Jesus, / To help me follow your ways / And imagine your future.
Never forget, never again: Keeping Civil War memorials
We must acknowledge the good, but also the bad, of our past — memories of deliverance, but also that from which we were delivered.
Secularization and a renewal of ecumenical dialogue
Secularization is fundamentally about a break in the chain of memory. Ecumenical dialogue attuned to its problems would focus on a common project to spread the gospel to every corner of the world.
Memory inscribed in stone
On a cold Saturday morning in early March, I picked up the "Clerk of Oxford," and we drove out to South Leigh.
Maundy Thursday and the architecture of remembrance
In what way is this night, to use the words of God to Moses and the people of Israel, a "memorial" (Ex. 12:14)?
A pitch for memorization
Memorizing prayers, by definition, means that the prayers become inscribed on your soul in a new way. You become mindful of the words, and they come to rest in the “fields and vast palaces of memory” (see Augustine, Confessions X.12-26), engraved on the walls of those palaces for your perusal at will.