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July 2018

July 25, 2018

Life Is Short; Art is Long

As part of our tourist rounds in Chicago my wife and I visited the Art...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

How to Negate Hate

Recently I gave a talk to the freshman at a local college on the theme...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

My Kite Boy

This post originally appeared at Good Letters on June 5, 2012. I woke at one...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Since I’ve been blogging here at Good Letters I have been contacted by several friends who knew...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Science and the Death of Philosophy

My boy is a bit of a science geek. He subscribes to Discover and Popular...

August 2015

August 17, 2015

The Boy Who Lived Large

Friday we took the kids and hit the road for Aiken, South Carolina. We were...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

While My Pen Gently Weeps

My daughter Gracie was helping me prepare dinner one evening. We were doing the bœuf...

April 2015

April 14, 2015

Who Needs to Read Anymore?

At the community college where I teach—actually in the state capitol two hours away—a massive...

October 2014

October 20, 2014

Hannah Graham and a Silence too Loud

It was forty degrees this morning when I got into my car. The back window...

October 10, 2014

Pasternak: Artist and Holy Fool

As I read the essay “The Writer and the Valet” in my latest issue of...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

The Demons That Possess Us

When I graduated from Seattle Pacific’s MFA program, I was sorely disappointed to hear Greg...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

The Creationist Crisis Reprise

Several months ago I blogged about the Ken Ham Bill Nye debate at Liberty University....

August 08, 2014

Righteous Minds Left and Right

The orthodontist’s new office has a waiting room tricked out with video games—even a genuine...

July 2014

July 24, 2014

God, Guilt, and Aronofsky’s Noah, Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about the film Noah and the believing soul’s ambivalence to God. Today...

July 23, 2014

God, Guilt, and Aronofsky’s Noah, Part 1

As it has become too expensive for our family of five to go to the...

July 11, 2014

Cheers to the World Cup

I met a friend in the local hipster bar to watch what was to be...

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Can We Bridge the Racial Divide?

Recently, after I’d just watched the documentary about food deserts called A Place at the...

June 02, 2014

Can’t a Dad Hug His Boy?

When I sat down to work at my computer yesterday morning, I checked my email...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

Sunday in Sweet Afton

Last Sunday my wife decided to celebrate the end of our semester by taking a...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Sex and Power and Christian Education

My wife and I are always behind on television shows because we wait for them...

April 11, 2014

Poetry at the Goodwill

When I was a soccer-obsessed fifteen-year-old, I had no use for poetry. I endured my...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

The Creationist Crisis

Recently my brother had a DNA test done to see what our nationality/ethnicity breakdown is....

February 2014

February 24, 2014

The Rich, the Poor, and Jesus

In November of 2013, Oxfam International released the results of a study that found an...

February 03, 2014

Asher Lev’s Gift to Me

My middle son’s name is Asher. He is named after the protagonist of Chaim Potok’s...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

Christmas Past

I once watched a boy steal all my Christmas presents. I lay on my stomach...

December 03, 2013

The World Is a Fine Place Worth Fighting For

A few leaves are still hanging on the trees, but my yard is so covered...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

Set the Captive Free

I read my friend Dyana’s Art House America essay about her brother “definitely going to...

October 2013

October 14, 2013

Nothing Can Stay, Gold or Not

My wife Liz and I met in a bar. For Liz it was in defiance...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Art Is Long, Life Is Short

My wife and I were in Chicago over the summer, and as part of our...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

We Have Eternity in Our Hearts

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the...