Annie Dillard
"Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we blithely invoke?... The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ... straw [or] velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and... draw us to where we can never return." - Annie Dillard in Teaching a Stone to Talk (quoted by John Ferguson, my RUF campus minester)
Wow, interesting, after hearing that quote and some googling, I want to read Annie Dillard.
Wow, interesting, after hearing that quote and some googling, I want to read Annie Dillard.
posted by Stejahen at 11:11 PM
4 Comments:
Start with "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". It is one of my favorites.
Kristin, You should recommend more books to me! Where did you introduced to her?
Amber: Cool, It's odd how you'll hear a name once and suddenly it's all over the place.
Stephen, I actually was introduced to her through one of Elisabeth Elliot's books...of all places. She quotes Dillard in a few of her books, and I have heard her recommend Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in lectures on writing. You are welcome to peruse my book list anytime. :0)
Ha, turns out I've already read an essay by her in the Christian Imagination, and forgot about it. Heh. Makes sense that she'd be in that book though.
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