“The Wild Free Ways of Wit and Art”: A Piety for the Present Moment
In his early 20th century essay, “The Figure a Poem Makes”, Robert Frost argued for a wild and free way of knowing that the culture could get more readily from the artist than from the scholar.
Dean and President Gary Hall, in his inaugural lecture as Seabury’s Professor of Anglican Studies, reported on what he has heard from the wild and free voices addressing us out of the whirlwind.As the Anglican Communion festers in its internal tensions and anxieties, war, AIDS, poverty, climate change, the erosion of human rights and civil liberties, and environmental degradation continue to advance unabated. How might a church obsessed with its own processes learn from those both within and without our walls to turn our attention to what God may be up to in the present moment?
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Posted at January 18, 2006 02:44 PM
