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August 2013

August 13, 2013

Sorting Through the Past

I’ve been cleaning out an attic—not my own—along with drawers, closets, shelves, storehouses, and barns...

August 11, 2013

A Single Share

Eleven years teaching writing. The best years of my working life. The writing teacher is...

August 09, 2013

The Bible as Icon

For Vic Sizemore With six children in a Southern Baptist family in the 1970s, we...

August 08, 2013

Black Boy, 2013

One of my boys is reading Richard Wright’s Black Boy for his English class this...

August 07, 2013

Orthodox Films Fill the Void

Living on the F train subway line in Brooklyn, I am regularly exposed to one...

August 05, 2013

The American Divide

This is not an essay about politics but I have to begin with politics because...

August 02, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 2

By Warren Farha Guest Post Continued from yesterday. An increasing torrent of books and articles...

August 01, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 1

By Warren Farha Guest Post Note: This post and the one following it have been...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Cutting Away the Noise

Fifteen years ago, there was no end to the noise. It took a cutting to...

July 30, 2013

A Feast for Hungry Eyes: An Interview with Sam Phillips, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Chad Thomas Johnston: The website for The Long Play shut down on...

July 29, 2013

A Feast for Hungry Eyes: An Interview with Sam Phillips, Part 1

Many songsmiths have struggled to navigate the commercial wilderness that arose in the aftermath of...

July 26, 2013

The Truth Told Slant

Every winter I plunge into darkness. As Seattle days shorten to eight hours with clouds...

July 25, 2013

Belief and Belonging

Last week I went and watched my son graduate from Virginia Boys State. After the...

July 24, 2013

The Poetry of Self-Absorbed Young Love

Until I was thirty-two, I was afraid to think about God. I panicked at what...

July 23, 2013

The Impossible Shows Us How To Live

If you were to live a day as though you’d be dead at the end...

July 22, 2013

Saint Linda

Just about every morning for the eight-plus years we’ve lived in our house, the day...

July 19, 2013

What Came Before Numbering Our Days?

What came before “there was evening and there was morning, a first day,” and “there...

July 18, 2013

Camping with God

The exodus (small “e”) was a family of five fleeing the New York summer in...

July 17, 2013

Living on the Threshold

Guest Post By Elizabeth Kalman My house sits on the edge of a salt marsh...

July 16, 2013

Holy Water

"One must have faith and pray; the water will have no virtue without faith." –St....

July 15, 2013

What We Learn

As he is evacuated from a battle zone, Chris Taylor—Oliver Stone’s protagonist in Platoon—marches us...

July 12, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Recently I sang Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Seattle Symphony. In...

July 11, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 1

“Tell me a story,” my son has started to say after reading his bedtime books....

July 10, 2013

Smiling Skulls: On Death and Diversion

With sinister skulls on their black Metallica and Megadeth T-shirts, the teenagers who snaked alongside...

July 09, 2013

A Baby Smaller Than Roosevelt’s Eye

Guest Post By Lindsey DeLoach Jones For most new parents, the first glimpse of the...

July 08, 2013

Sisyphus with a Lawnmower

I hate mowing the lawn. I hate lawnmowers. Our unkempt yard stands out among our...

July 05, 2013

Women Who Make America

Imagine that you’re in grade school in the 1950s. At Thanksgiving, Uncle Richard turns to...

July 03, 2013

It’s Always 1984

July 4, 1984. I don’t remember the day, but surely jokes were made back then;...

July 02, 2013

Antisuperchrist: How the Man of Steel Saves, Part 2

Guest Post By Lucas Kwong Today I want to take up the question that ended...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Antisuperchrist: How the Man of Steel Saves, Part 1

Guest Post By Lucas Kwong We may have taken Jesus out of our schools, but...