Farewell our queen
(Queen Elizabeth II, image courtesy of Pixabay) The Queen is dead, God save the King! Queen Elizabeth II, the first and only monarch I...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Aug 18, 2022
- 5 min
sitting with the difficult
(The Young Seamstress by Joseph Israels, 1880) It is not easy to sit with hard things, even impossible things, when we find them in our...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Jun 4, 2022
- 1 min
To a monk polemicist
(The Bitter Potion--Adriaen Brouwer c 1637) For a moment, if you please, I beg you stop I have heard your screeching and felt your blows...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Mar 12, 2022
- 7 min
letting go and sharing the faith with our children
(Jan Steen, Prayer before the Meal, 1660) People of religious faith, and those without it often frame their differences in terms of...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
New Novel
I have recently published a novel that I wrote nearly ten years ago, and which has been sitting in my (digital) trunk ever since. The...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Jan 10, 2022
- 5 min
Covid and the Life of the Kingdom
(Murillo, Christ Healing the Paralytic, 1667-1670) For nearly two years the world has been gripped by a pandemic that has upended every...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Untitled
(Painting, Vanitas by Harmen Steenwijk) I saw a man coming who was green and soft like moss--earthy, earthen, smelling of earth,...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Jul 26, 2019
- 5 min
Wind and the Art of What Cannot be Done
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (d. 1915) The art of sailing is born of the impossible. It is impossible, by absolutely any means, to sail directly...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Feb 26, 2019
- 8 min
Baseball and the Infinite
[George Mullin, c. 1909] Chapter 8 of Alasdair MacIntyre’s classic, After Virtue, treats in part the problem of the social sciences, and...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- May 5, 2018
- 4 min
On Becoming Wine
[Bunch of Grapes, by Andrew John Henry Way, 1873] To make a jug of wine, a grape seed must first have gone into the ground and died in...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Apr 4, 2018
- 5 min
The Theology of Dostoevsky
(Dostoevky's Grave, St Petersburg) The following is a lightly edited version of my final remarks to the students for a course at Trinity...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Feb 8, 2018
- 7 min
The Forgotten Discipline of Rest
(George Cole, Harvesters at Rest) God is a God of action, of work, of doing. In the story of Genesis, God spends the vast majority of the...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Jan 5, 2018
- 7 min
Thabor
Fr Luke lifted the hat brim from his eyes. He did not sit up right away, but shifted slightly until the hammock swayed under him. The...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Dec 2, 2017
- 3 min
Fall Swallow
(Image by: Umairkhan9616 [cc]) The swallow had circled the horizon twice already, and not said a word. I stood, just wondering why it...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Nov 10, 2017
- 1 min
Studying Patristics at Trinity College, Toronto
This month, a video from me on my approach to studying patristics at the Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College in Toronto. Hope...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Oct 3, 2017
- 5 min
Grief: Love
(Photo © Daniel G Opperwall; all rights reserved) Love is often festal. A baby is born to tears of joy, grows, laughs as she is tossed...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Aug 11, 2017
- 5 min
Contemplation (and a Rose)
(Painting from a Ruysch Still Life) Contemplation (and a Rose) It was through the back alley that I was walking, that alley that is lined...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Aug 10, 2017
- 1 min
WE PRAY Teaching resources
Daniel's recent children's book We Pray is perfect for building a Sunday-school or home-school lesson on prayer. Here you'll find some...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- Aug 10, 2017
- 1 min
Envy (poem; adults)
(Painting: Menageot--Envy Plucking the Wings of Fame) Envy- You, like string upon a needle fine that through the eyelid in a stroke is...
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Daniel G Opperwall
- May 8, 2017
- 9 min
Sleep Thoughts Next to a Little Girl (humour essay; adults)
[This is a bit of an old one, but I've always been fond of it.] Sometimes on nights when my daughter does not wish to close her eyes, I...
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