Dan Clendenin

Crazy Quilt

Selected by Dan Clendenin

Crazy Quilt

From Jane Wilson Joyce, Quilt Pieces (Gnomon Press, second printing, 2009).
 
The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia
is cracked. California is splitting
off. There is no East or West, no rhyme,
no reason to it. We are…

Like a Loving Physician

By Dan Clendenin

In the summer of 2002, I traveled to Austria for a meeting of the Theological Students Fellowship of Europe. About sixty seminary students from sixteen countries gathered at a retreat center called Schloss Mittersill, a castle about two hours…

Pontius Pilate; Deciphering a Memory

By Dan Clendenin

Aldo Schiavone, Pontius Pilate; Deciphering a Memory, translated by Jeremy Carden (New York: Liveright, 2017), 238pp.

The Yale historian Jaroslav Pelikan once observed how “one of the many…