Walter Wangerin – facing cancer several years ago (he’s still going) Suddenly–in the midst of a life fresh and green and full of dreams–death intrudes. Your death. The real thing. Das Ding an sich, as the Germans say: “The thing itself.” And what may in the past have been a warning, perhaps a multitude of […]
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by Walter Wangerin “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Luke 22:42 Night. There is a cold light falling from the indifferent stars—a light like the finest of snows, pale on the ground, pale on the hair and shoulders of a sad band of […]
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