There are some things we have had the curtain pulled back on that will never shut. There are some paths we have gone down which prevent us ever going down other paths. Would I take back all that knowledge in order to get next-day delivery from Amazon Prime? Probably not. Well, maybe. Read more
While I am consumed by writing projects over here and unable to have coherent new thoughts, let me repost these from Facebook – presented without comment and as I wrote them while the show was going on. Including my biggest ever prophetic fail, as you will see… One: A Shadow of the Past Two: Adrift It looks gorgeous and it looks like Tolkien. Wonderful maps. Lindon was breathtaking and easily believable as something that Lothlórien would later echo in a... Read more
From the beginning, I think the show asks us to believe and remember that everything we see is going to fall and everything that is tried is going to fail. Read more
When I was a young and eager post-Vatican-II-influenced liturgy geek with an idealistic mania for displacing my elders, I used to think you could use liturgy for education. Now I know I was wrong. First of all, there are no modern people. There are just people. Secondly, liturgy can and will teach you, but that's not why you do it. You do it so that it gets into your bones, so that it holds you up in times of tragedy, so that it gives you words that are not your own to say to God when you can't come up with any words of your own. Read more
We were all deprived of the Way of Affirmation for over two years - the celebration of God and creation's goodness through community and art and theater and feasting - and the implications are going to be generational. We may yet get to something beautiful where we're going, and Jesus may yet use all this, but we don't get back the same things we lost, not even out of his fullness. Read more
Here was an attempt to truly infuse liberal arts thinking throughout the curriculum and bring different disciplines in contact with each other. Right. Right? Read more
What does this dream mean? I have no idea. But I can tell you that for 30 blissful seconds in the middle of a domesticated Zumba class, 43 years after I had the dream, I was enacting it. Read more
This post is just a quick announcement: I love this song, I love this cartoon video for this song, and you can sing it at your church. Read more about it and download lyrics and chords and things here. It’s hard to write good, worshipful songs about work. I’ve long been a fan of the Work Songs album by the Porter’s Gate and Among the Thorns by Cardiphonia, and this belongs on the same list. Read more
Recently I had someone ask me how an academic could get started writing for a popular audience. This is something I have backed into doing by accident over the past 20 years. (Imagine how much further ahead of me any of you will be if you do it on purpose!) Here's an edited version of some pointers I gave them. Read more
Place is part of vocation. I am from the Midwest, but I live in the South. Read more
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