Thursday, January 31, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 16 - Babette's Feast
Babette as "liturgist"...directing the course of the meal...manna in the desert
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 15 - Babette's Feast
Turning water into wine, the miracle at Cana...
Monday, January 28, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 14 - Babette's Feast
Gen. Logenhiem’s anamnesis continued…
“you’ve gotten to the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning on the wrong wall.” - CS Lewis
Saturday, January 26, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 13 - Babette's Feast
The dinner begins with the late dean’s favorite hymn:
“Jerusalem my heart’s true home, your name is forever dear to me, your kindness is second to none, you keep us clothed and fed, never would you a give a stone to a child who begs for bread.”
The world is not a moral but a mystical concern
Thursday, January 24, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 12 - Babette's Feast
The fractious community unites in secret opposition to Babette’s French dinner
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 11 - Babette's Feast
Babette wins 10,000 francs in a ‘godless’ lottery just as the community prepares for the 100th anniversary celebration of their founder's birth – agreeing to let Babette provide the meal
Sunday, January 20, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 10 - Babette's Feast
Passions, memories and longings are the basis for true spiritual depth and vitality - the spirit of the church
Labels:
Babette's Feast,
passions,
spirit of the Church
Friday, January 18, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 9 - Babette's Feast
Discipline leads to freedom, repression does not.
Labels:
Babette's Feast,
discipline,
passions,
repression
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 8 - Babette's Feast
Babette learns to cook split cod and ale and bread soup. The dark Martha came to live with the two bright Marys as the "stone that was almost rejected..."
Monday, January 14, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 7 - Babette's Feast
Philipa & Achille Papin - continued
Babette arrives, a refuge from history
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 5 - Babette's Feast
Sin is seeing my life through other people’s eyes
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 4 - Babette's Feast
Mercy and truth, dear brethren, have met together; righteousness and bliss have kissed one another.
Sunday, January 06, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 3 - Babette's Feast
Setting the scene...an aging sectarian community.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
From the Archives: Crucial Choice Part 1 - Babette's Feast
This excerpt begins a series of talks Gil Bailie gave in 1993 under the title "Crucial Choice - Reflections on Isak Dinesen's 'Babette's Feast' and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person' "
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