new authors

while in school, i am doing a rather silly thing. discovering new authors in the midst of not having enough time to read what i am required to read. ah well--suppose it is that hidden rebel in me to further procrastinate in a passive aggressive way.

two new authors i am loving
robert farrar capon
"The church is not in the world to teach sinners to straighten up and fly right. That's the world's business; and on the whole it does a fairly competent - even a gleefully aggressive - job of it. The church is supposed to be in the forgiveness business. Its job in filling pulpits is to find derelict nobodies who are willing to admit that they're sinners and mean it."

wendell berry
"When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”