by Guy Sayles | Feb 23, 2012 | Opinion
In the late 1970s, when Anita and I were in seminary in Louisville, Ky., my maternal grandparents, who lived four hours away in Huntington, W.Va., were the relatives to whom we most closely lived. Whenever we could, usually a few times a year, we’d visit them in...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 20, 2012 | Opinion
Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in “After Virtue” claimed that two of our culture’s emblematic professions are “the Manager” and “the Therapist.” The Manager is mostly concerned with technique – with turning raw material into...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 14, 2012 | Opinion
For many years now, I’ve had a growing conviction that the great Catholic theologian Karl Rahner was right to have claimed: “The Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at all.” He meant that people will either have a dynamic,...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 1, 2012 | Opinion
At a critical point in “The Lord of the Rings,” Frodo, the Hobbit whose burden it was to carry the Ring toward its destruction – the destruction that would save Middle Earth – has grown weary and disheartened. He’s afraid and uncertain. He says to...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 24, 2012 | Opinion
I grew up in Atlanta – Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown – during the most intense days of the civil rights movement. The center of the movement was in Atlanta’s “Sweet Auburn” district, a vibrant African-American business and...
