We sometimes speak of hope as though it were a kind of optimism—a brightness we choose in spite of the world as it is. But what if hope
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Moses Goes to Scotland Phillip Aijian The loch is made and remade every day—every moment, filling and draining—from forty rivers. Each deposits untold amounts of peat— kin to coal; kin to light and heat. But in the Loch there abides, as far as we can see, only cold and darkness. Not a light shines under the surface but it gets trapped like a weary firefly in a dirty mason jar. Its depths we know and name in meters and feet, as if meters and feet told us much more about the Loch and its secrets than they do about God
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You and Madeleine L'Engle became great friends. (You even coauthored a book on friendship). How did the long, close relationship influence you both as writers?
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Jamie is an Associate Professor of American religions and material culture at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She earned her PhD from Duke University. Her book Protestant Relics in Early America examines relic veneration, corpse inspection, and the art of
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Michael is Professor of Architecture at the University of Hartford. He is the sole author, editor, or contributor to more than 75 books on architecture, including five books for children.
Michael is the recipient of the Edward S. Frey Memorial Award, in Recognition of the
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