James Carroll
James Carroll
argue assume calling changes church drawing idealistic people portrait wildly
Many people will assume I'm drawing a wildly idealistic portrait of what the church can become. I would argue that all of the changes I'm calling for are not only realistic, they're essential. And I'd also say that in some way or other, each of them is already underway.
adventurer great
He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an adventurer competes with his work.
dad found
I found myself back to the Pentagon...as a protester?and my dad was still inside.
continued department drop fish interior life wild
It has continued to drop in the Department of Interior budget, particularly fish and wild life.
foreign generally gotten last oil price terms tougher
Generally speaking, these terms (with foreign governments) have gotten much tougher in the last 20 years. In 1986, the price of oil was $10 to $20 a barrel.
memories political tyranny
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
spiritual memories moving
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
war distance cities
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.
other-worlds relaxation breeze
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
progress stories denial
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.
war hero air
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.
life-changing book reading
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.
thinking flaws fixed
There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.
memories stories definitions
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.