People Stories - The Monday Morning Memo

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“For being gay in 1895, Oscar Wilde was sent to prison where he lived in a room precisely the size of this stage. During his years in that room, he wrote a letter that has since become known as De Profundis, ‘From the Depths.’

In one passage where he was contemplating Christ, he said that Jesus had, “an intense and flamelike imagination… He understood the leprosy of the leper, the darkness of the blind, the fierce misery of those who live for pleasure, the strange poverty of the rich… Indeed, that is the charm about Christ, when all is said: he is just like a work of art. He does not really teach one anything, but by being brought into his presence one becomes something. And everybody is predestined to his presence. Once at least in his life each man walks with Christ to Emmaus.””

- Roy H. Williams, April 25, 2022, at 3:10AM

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