William J. Everett's Blog

Reflections on Writing, Woodworking, and Ethics

Waiting at Christmas

We have been marooned on our mountainside by the big snow storm for the last five days. This poem popped up to meditate on our experience. I hope your own turning time of sun is full and renewing, whatever hemisphere you’re in. We are waiting, truly waiting for warming sun, dissolving rain, to offer up [...]

Obama’s Just War Nobel Speech

President Obama’s address to the Nobel Peace Prize Assembly has been justly praised for reintroducing the tradition of “just war” thinking into discussions of peace-building. His carefully reasoned exploration of the use of force in a world of endemic strife challenged the easy oppositions between pacifism and belligerency that often paralyze our thought. He attended [...]

Bishop Spong’s “Eternal Life”

Bishop John Shelby Spong, as you blogees may remember, was with us for a most stimulating and engaging weekend in September. His lectures were based on his latest (and he says last!) book, Eternal Life: A New Vision (Harper, 2009). I have finally had a chance to read it fairly carefully. Written in his own [...]