Peripatetic Pastor

Tag: Religion

  • CONVERSATION IN AN OTTOMAN SITTING ROOM

    Mostar, Bosnia Our guide in Mostar, a city in Bosnia, was describing the war in the 90s. Earlier we had walked by a graveyard in what had been a small city park. The dates on the gravestones all ended in the same year, 1993. The people of Mostar buried their dead in the park because…

  • SUPERSTITION

    How an Old Distinction between Religion and Superstition Speaks to Today SUPERSTITION I’ve been thinking lately about superstition. Not the funky 1972 Stevie Wonder hit, although it would make a great soundtrack for this piece: Very superstitious/Writing’s on the wallVery superstitious/Ladder’s ‘bout to fall Got the beat in your head? Hum it as you read.…