FFW 2008: Kathleen Norris, Francine Rivers, More
I just returned from the Iron & Wine concert after Bridge to Taribetha author Katherine Patterson's lecture on beauty, the final moment of Calvin College's Festival of Faith and Writing. I have too many new books, too little sleep, & a flight out in the morn.
The funniest line I heard all day I heard at least twice (near the end of 3 days of sessions), "What was your favorite session?" as if I can remember what I attended 1 hour previous, much less evaluate the entire Festival (which runs about 80% female attendees, like most lit stuff).
Got to interview Francine Rivers (big new book coming), Kathleen Norris (3 NY Times bestsellers), & Jeffrey Overstreet, a Christian film critic & essayist, but also had a cool session by Professor Daniel Taylor on "Telling Our Master Stories" (they're the stories we tell ourselves when we start to forget where we came from or when we're in crisis), discovered Haven Kimmel, a former Quaker & was riveted by Norri's "Acedia...Again."
Before there were 7 Deadly Sins there were actually 8 'bad thoughts' (the desert fathers didn't call them sins) & Acedia was the one that didn't make the cut; or more accurately, it was folded into "Sloth" as it defined spiritual indifference. And it just so happens to define today's society almost perfectly. Book coming September 16, 2008!
If you've ever contemplated attending a literary festival, book April 15-16 (?), 2010 now!
The funniest line I heard all day I heard at least twice (near the end of 3 days of sessions), "What was your favorite session?" as if I can remember what I attended 1 hour previous, much less evaluate the entire Festival (which runs about 80% female attendees, like most lit stuff).
Got to interview Francine Rivers (big new book coming), Kathleen Norris (3 NY Times bestsellers), & Jeffrey Overstreet, a Christian film critic & essayist, but also had a cool session by Professor Daniel Taylor on "Telling Our Master Stories" (they're the stories we tell ourselves when we start to forget where we came from or when we're in crisis), discovered Haven Kimmel, a former Quaker & was riveted by Norri's "Acedia...Again."
Before there were 7 Deadly Sins there were actually 8 'bad thoughts' (the desert fathers didn't call them sins) & Acedia was the one that didn't make the cut; or more accurately, it was folded into "Sloth" as it defined spiritual indifference. And it just so happens to define today's society almost perfectly. Book coming September 16, 2008!
If you've ever contemplated attending a literary festival, book April 15-16 (?), 2010 now!
posted by kdc at
4/19/2008 11:43:00 PM
1 Comments:
As an adult male going back to college, I was always in the minority in my classes and sometimes I was the only male. At the risk of sounding chauvinistic, only the math and science-based classes seemed to have more males and even then we were in the minority. Where have all the men gone?
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