god Archives - The American Scholar

“How Bad Is Your Pain?”

By Raj Telhan | 09/05/2017 |

Notes on the nature of suffering

I Will Love You in the Summertime

By Christian Wiman | 02/29/2016 |

Between the rupture of life and the rapture of language lies a world of awe and witness

All That Is the Case

By William Deresiewicz | 07/07/2013 |

6 arguments against the existence of God

My Bright Abyss

By Christian Wiman | 12/01/2008

I never felt the pain of unbelief until I believed. But belief itself is hardly painless.

Gazing Into the Abyss

By Christian Wiman | 06/01/2007

The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a “hope toward God”

What if Nature Had Been Thrifty?

By Daniel Reid | 12/01/2006