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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.

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Nov 07, 2020

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

Nov 07, 2020

I used to write on a big old couch, but I gave that away. I was wise enough to give it to my son, so if it turns out that the couch was essential to my work, at least the decision to be rid of it is not irreversible.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.

Novel
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.

God
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

Human
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Nov 07, 2020

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

Nov 07, 2020

Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.

American Writers
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Nov 07, 2020

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.

Brotherly
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Nov 07, 2020

My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work.

Grandfather
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Nov 07, 2020

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

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Nov 07, 2020

I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

Nov 07, 2020

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.

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Nov 07, 2020

I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.

Poetry
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Nov 07, 2020

The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.

Poetry
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Nov 07, 2020

One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.

More
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Nov 07, 2020

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

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