My latest short story, “The Borde Syndrome,” has been published in the August 2020 issue of Arkansas Review. It’s a story that’s uncommonly surrealist for me, but then, so are these times.

Tag: cross

Nov 04 2014

On serpent and the cross. Part II.

Continued from “On serpent and the cross. Part I.” You must admit, one can hardly keep from eisegesis when one is a Christian holding Numbers 21. “Eisegesis” is reading meaning into the text rather than out of it. The authors of the bronze serpent story didn’t have the Christ in mind, but we discern the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://onmounthoreb.com/on-serpent-and-cross-part-2/

Jun 02 2013

On taking up my cross.

For a reflection dedicated entirely to the Eucharist, see the essay entitled “On the Bread of Life.” Today is the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, so I thought I’d be writing about the Eucharist, my most precious mystery. Or about the Last Supper, the story we tell of the historical source of …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://onmounthoreb.com/on-taking-up-my-cross/