by James Gordon | Apr 10, 2015 | Opinion
I have been trying to evolve an ecology of speech throughout Lent, a way with words that is hospitable to life. This includes learning to talk and to be silent at the right times and places, being careful to remember the capacity of words to have an afterlife once...
by James Gordon | Mar 19, 2015 | Opinion
“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” has the same winning ingredients as the first film. There is a sumptuous setting in India and characters who combine being interesting with being vulnerable, played by actors and actresses of consummate skill who are...
by James Gordon | Feb 1, 2015 | Opinion
The first clause of the theological masterpiece, which is the Gospel of John, proclaims “In the beginning was the Word.” The first words of God at the beginning of all things, according to that equally remarkable meteor of theology, the creation story in...
by James Gordon | Dec 5, 2014 | Opinion
More and more I am convinced that Christian witness today requires that followers of Jesus speak with linguistic integrity, resisting the lies, half-truths, redefinitions, propaganda and semantic erosion of contemporary political and social discourse. A number of key...
by James Gordon | Nov 14, 2014 | Opinion
You only understand Jonah if you’ve learned to hate, if life experience has educated you in heartfelt, instinctive, focused hostility. And you only understand Jonah’s God if you are prepared to unlearn hatred, and by a painful inner reorientation accept...
