A literary reflection by Joel Kurz on Willa Cather's My Ántonia. This is one installment of a monthly series providing reflections on works of literature from a Lutheran perspective. “The body characterizes everything it touches. What it makes it traces over with the marks of its pulses and breathings, its excitements, hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. On its good work, it leaves the marks of skill, care, and love persisting through hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. And to those of us who ...
