Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Matthew Ichihashi Potts

  • I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION: TOWARD UNDERSTANDING THE CHRIST STORY

    Louise Erdrich’s novel LaRose is a Christ story. Erdrich does not say so, but she hints at it. And such a strange story it is. The story begins with a killing. Dusty, the young son of Peter and Nola Ravich jumps down from a tree just as Landreaux, Dusty’s uncle, pulls the trigger to take down a…

  • FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING: THOUGHTS AT THANKSGIVING

    How should we remember the past? In this Thanksgiving season in the US, that question has considerable force. What is our relationship to what has shaped and formed us as a country?  What is the story that we will tell this Thanksgiving Day to our children and to ourselves? In my own case, the story might…