Robert Hardies is senior minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian, in Washington, DC, and author of a forthcoming book on the spiritual disciplines of 19th-century Unitarians and Transcendentalists.
Robert Hardies
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Thoreau, Prophet of the Anthropocene
I was halfway through Laura Dassow Walls’s new biography of Henry David Thoreau when my partner and I celebrated his birthday on our favorite stretch of …
Marilynne Robinson’s “Reservoir of Goodness”
In his eulogy last week for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the slain pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, President Obama made an unexpected reference to contemporary literature: That’s what I’ve felt this week—an open heart. That, more than any particular policy or analysis, is what’s called upon right now, I think—what […]
