http://www.cardus.ca/contributors/abelz en Copyright 2012 Cardus Thu, 24 May 2012 10:08:47 -0400 Cardus Thu, 24 May 2012 10:08:47 -0400 http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3149/ Jokes: a sophisticated form of border patrol and, in parody especially, correction.... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 Jokes: a sophisticated form of border patrol and, in parody especially, correction.... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3095/ Billy Collins sashays into Big Ideas with apparent ease, poem after poem—death, love, the self, the death of love, love of the self. Beginning with the impossible or the mundane he transforms th... Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Billy Collins sashays into Big Ideas with apparent ease, poem after poem—death, love, the self, the death of love, love of the self. Beginning with the impossible or the mundane he transforms th... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/3009/ Johnston's purpose is to explore the tension between the subjective and the objective, to keep these two realms of experience in balance.... Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Johnston's purpose is to explore the tension between the subjective and the objective, to keep these two realms of experience in balance.... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/2139/ Something is happening in the universe outside of, or irrespective of, the human narrative.... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Something is happening in the universe outside of, or irrespective of, the human narrative.... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1476/ ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 ... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1456/ Beset with information, and information, and information, what is the self?... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Beset with information, and information, and information, what is the self?... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1177/ It is the rare famous author who's able to return, painfully, to his beginning and ask, what was this for? Why did I do this?... Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 It is the rare famous author who's able to return, painfully, to his beginning and ask, what was this for? Why did I do this?... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1103/ The best of the new crop of poets are bridging the gap between avant-garde obscurantism and traditional narrative poetry. Consider the latest anthology from W.W. Norton, a browser's introduction to po... Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 The best of the new crop of poets are bridging the gap between avant-garde obscurantism and traditional narrative poetry. Consider the latest anthology from W.W. Norton, a browser's introduction to po... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1572/ Poem... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Poem... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/708/ Poems that are a delight to speak aloud and whose contents are worth pondering.... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Poems that are a delight to speak aloud and whose contents are worth pondering.... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/11/ As confused as Christians are about entering culture, and as heavy as the mandate is to transform it into something that pleases God, it may be best to remember that we enter it not only as Christians... Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 As confused as Christians are about entering culture, and as heavy as the mandate is to transform it into something that pleases God, it may be best to remember that we enter it not only as Christians... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/926/ A symposium of encouragement. You may feel like the tiniest cog in a big wheel, but your work really matters.... Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400 A symposium of encouragement. You may feel like the tiniest cog in a big wheel, but your work really matters.... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/928/ In the September 16 2007 Boston Globe, Anthony Kronman—the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University—writes, "In a shift of historic importance, America's college and universities have ... Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400 In the September 16 2007 Boston Globe, Anthony Kronman—the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University—writes, "In a shift of historic importance, America's college and universities have ... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/275/ Aaron Belz thinks the contemporary high school classroom is a bastion of the bourgeois, that students who excel in this environment are gifted at waiting in line at the drinking fountain, and that the... Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0400 Aaron Belz thinks the contemporary high school classroom is a bastion of the bourgeois, that students who excel in this environment are gifted at waiting in line at the drinking fountain, and that the... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/176/ An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) by Philip Sidney, R. W. Maslen, ed. (Manchester University Press, 2002, 304 pp, $36.95) In what has been called the "most stylish and seductive work of... Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0500 An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) by Philip Sidney, R. W. Maslen, ed. (Manchester University Press, 2002, 304 pp, $36.95) In what has been called the "most stylish and seductive work of... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/170/ With Comment, we try and connect three things in every issue (although not necessarily all three at the same time in every single piece we publish): (1) the Christian worldview, (2) everyday-work-as-c... Sun, 01 Sep 2002 00:00:00 -0400 With Comment, we try and connect three things in every issue (although not necessarily all three at the same time in every single piece we publish): (1) the Christian worldview, (2) everyday-work-as-c... http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1418/ Like civil laws that guide us in our social and political life, and like moral principles that inform our daily decisions, the information sharing protocols of the Internet will gird our civilization ... Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 -0500 Like civil laws that guide us in our social and political life, and like moral principles that inform our daily decisions, the information sharing protocols of the Internet will gird our civilization ...