Author: Jamieson Spencer
Jamieson Spencer is a retired professor of English at St. Louis Community College. He has written book and music reviews for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he is the author of two books: Fictional Religion (a study of religious ideas in great literature) and Modified Raptures (a contemporary romance novel.)
God? Good Question!
God Is a Question, Not an Answer: Finding Common Ground in Our Uncertainty, by William Irwin (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018, ISBN: 978-1538115886). 160 pp. Hardcover, $24.95. William Irwin has written a very clear and articulate argument in support of the special value of doubt. Modest and yet far-ranging, the book delves into both …
On Listening to Our Opponents
It’s hardly headline news these days that we Americans are dividing more and more into warring camps. Our social media are partly to blame, driving us into mutually hostile and suspicious “siloes” of opinion. I have a genuinely modest suggestion of one practice for dealing with these “interesting times” of ours—that old Chinese curse, “May …