tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202458237483635505.post1482515055205888648..comments2024-01-17T04:07:49.918-05:00Comments on Acts of Hope: A sermon on faith by Karen FavreauUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202458237483635505.post-10720227612043259042007-10-09T00:08:00.000-04:002007-10-09T00:08:00.000-04:00At one time we said to one another "May you live i...At one time we said to one another "May you live in interesting times."<BR/>I think I could do with less faith, actually, and a lot more "assurances of things seen", with a lot more talk and listening, of course.<BR/><BR/>Especially unsettling our certainties and requiring our faith is the divorce of serious talk and action from U.S. political culture: a technical term here. Pat Lang speaks of seeing geopolitical strategy in ethnographic terms, but a broader sense of human community is needed to account for our experience of living through "History". This is what I think of as the Marc Bloch/ Fernand Braudel school of reality: the bare minimum to be intelligible.<BR/><BR/>There certainly are other ways to approach the subject--whole, or in pieces--of course; you noted the Giotto St Francis a day or so ago, other narrative arts. There is the praise due to the famous, and to Rosencranz and Guilderstern too. English departments turn out film scholars, visual reading being necessary once again to the narratives that shape us, with different images than print.<BR/><BR/>A running critical (very, I know!)commentary, in a world where silence, and nature are rare and holy gifts; enjoy!johniebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11635403219973766022noreply@blogger.com