More Musings on Winter and Melancholia

This morning I had a good talk with Joy Cardin on Wisconsin Public Radio. We talked about the sorrow that often comes with Christmas and the power of It's a Wonderful Life, the greatest holiday film: http://wpr.org/ideas/programnotes.cfm.

Have a Blue Christmas

I was recently interviewed by Julie Rose on Charlotte's NPR affiliate, WFAE 90.7. We talk about how melancholy the holidays can be--and how that may not be such a bad thing: http://www.wfae.org/wfae/1_87_316.cfm?action=display&id=6754.

The Spiritual Value of Failure

Here's an article of mine just published on beliefnet.com. It appears in Jana Riess's blog called "Flunking Sainthood: On the Fun of Spiritual Failure," and it explores how the deepest darkness sometimes gets us closest to the light: http://blog.beliefnet.com/flunkingsainthood/2010/12/saved-by-depression-guest-blogger-eric-wilson-on-how-darkness-saved-his-soul.html.