The kind folks at Reel World Theology are publishing an interesting series called “If These Films Could Talk” which take two films with similar themes but from different decades to see what they might have to say to each other. The series editor Blake Collier asked me to contribute, so I chose Cool Hand Luke (1967) […]
Read MoreAny apologetics worth its salt has to recognize the barriers to faith—to sympathetically recognize what Alvin Plantinga calls “defeaters” for faith. What does Marilynne Robinson’s apologia for Christianity have to say in response to a protest like [Ta-Nehisi] Coates’s? It can’t simply be an alternative history, correcting Coates’s blind spots, enumerating all the good things […]
Read MoreAgain, Fathom Magazine published a set of my poems. I’m glad they’ve allowed me to be a part of their project. I hope these poems are helpful for you. Names of Crops The man had a hawk’s vision: So far away, the feral form floated in the fenceline I mimicked his naming of nearly nothing. […]
Read MoreThe kind folks at Fathom Magazine have published a series of Christmas poems I’ve written over the years. Click through the links to read them, but please stick around and browse their magazine. Anno Domini In the year of our Lord was a great hush; 400 years since He’d spoken a word. No man or woman […]
Read MoreFathom Magazine awarded and published one of my stories ––Once in This Bread–– this morning. Below is an excerpt (and link): On the college library steps, she finds Adam reclined, waiting on her. He eats a sandwich from a paper bag while the vestige of summer heat slides out of October. “This might be the […]
Read MoreI always wanted to be an animator. Then I tried and gave up after 10 seconds. I did this for Ryan Culwell’s song “Piss Down in My Bones”. It took me several weeks to get this far. I felt like that scene in Parks and Rec when Ben Wyatt realizes that he spent six weeks […]
Read MoreMy attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday. G K Chesterton (via revenantwaltz)
Read MoreIn signing [the Voting Rights Bill of 1965], the President announced that “Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that’s ever been won on any battlefield… today we strike away the last major shackle of…fierce and ancient bonds.” One year later, some of the people who had been brutalized in Selma and […]
Read MoreThe questions of language and war are often intertwined: a language is just a dialect with an army, as the saying goes William T. Cavanaugh. “Killing for the Telephone Company.” Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church. (34). Eerdman’s.
Read MoreAnd I realized then that the answer to “why write? Why talk? Why read? Why publish?” is that we are not primarily writing and reading and publishing to “fix” the City of Man. I mean, maybe things will in the future “swing our way,” and maybe our words will have had something to do with […]
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