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The Sword of the Lord
This was also posted at Jesus Needs New PR It is difficult, if not impossible, to know who you are without knowing where you came from, without knowing the history of your people, your place. For me,...
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Send Andrew Osenga to Space
For at least the last five years or so, whenever I think to check the “most-played” list in my iTunes, I’m never surprised to see that at least half the songs on the list are by Andy Osenga, many of...
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Why I Didn’t Attend Falwell’s Liberty University (it was too liberal)
This post first appeared over at Jesus Needs New PR a couple weeks ago. In January of 2007, Kevin Roose walked on to the campus of Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, ready to join 25,000 other...
View Article“…we grapple with redemption’s fable.”
I’ll break my unintentional blog silence here, as 2012 appears on the horizon, to share a poem from the Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, someone whose words have been a comfort and challenge to me over...
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lit
When asked my favorite book of 2010, I’m tempted to say, the first 10 pages of Mary Karr’s Lit. The introduction. Nothing more. That’s all I’d read, until a few nights ago. In the beginning of...
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Some thoughts on Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives, and Women Preachers
I admit it: I’m tired. Tired of the perennial discussions about the things women aren’t allowed to do, or what a “real man” or “real woman” looks like, discussions that often invoke the descriptor...
View ArticleGrowing Old: Hope, Samuel Beckett, and Krapp’s Last Tape
On a trip to New York City this past December, a trip that had as its genesis a desire to see Rob Mathes’ annual Christmas concert in person (after being introduced to Rob’s music via a DVD of the...
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Jeremiah Wright and Bad Religion
In “The Fate of Ideas: Moses,” an essay collected in Marilynne Robinson’s new book from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, When I Was a Child I Read Books, she critiques a number of popular writers on...
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God as deus ex machina
(This was first posted in October of last year on Matthew Paul Turner’s blog. I’m reposting it here as I try to consolidate most of my writing in one place) Reading the first chapter of Peter Rollins’...
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The Prophetic Imagination of Bruce Springsteen
The Art House America blog just published an essay I wrote on The Prophetic Imagination of Bruce Springsteen, my attempt to treat Walter Brueggemann and Wendell Berry as conversation partners with...
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