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April 2026

April 09, 2026

Three Conversations (in honor of Eastertide)

There will be ashes at the first, she said that clear and cool Ash Wednesday...

October 2025

October 08, 2025

Why Beth Felker Jones is Protestant

I am wrestling with the fact that I am wrestling with this book.

October 07, 2025

The Showgirl Report

A lot of the album discourse has centered around the relationship of joy, misery, and...

September 2025

September 22, 2025

The Social Contract

In this broken time when so much is rent asunder, it felt radical to trust,...

September 01, 2025

Come Labor On

All work, whether done wearing a tie behind a desk, overalls in the repair pit of...

July 2025

July 22, 2025

Not Nearly So Much Like a Mall

One of the things about being an old person on Instagram is that you run...

April 2025

April 17, 2025

I’m Still Here

Back with your regularly scheduled faith and work snark, theology, poetry, and Tolkien content shortly.

January 2025

January 10, 2025

As Always, Joy to the Work

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground.

October 2024

October 09, 2024

Final Rings of Power Reviews I Wrote During Season 2

The rest of my reviews of Rings of Power Season 2.

October 08, 2024

Yet More Rings of Power Reviews I Wrote During Season 2

Yes, yet more reviews of Rings of Power Season 2.

October 06, 2024

More of the Rings of Power Reviews I Wrote During Season 2

More reviews of Rings of Power Season 2.

October 05, 2024

Some of the Rings of Power Reviews I Wrote During Season 2

Reviewing the first two episodes of The Rings of Power.

September 2024

September 12, 2024

Ten Things I’m Glad I Saw On Rings of Power Season 2

Here are some things I think the show was worth producing in order to see...

August 2024

August 23, 2024

The Lost Scholars

Because of women like this, I was admitted to a Ph.D. program without anyone batting...

May 2024

May 29, 2024

Every Vocation Everywhere All At Once

What is a vocation? How does it endure through the years? Can it change? How...

May 24, 2024

Billy and Taylor

I promise this is not going to become a Taylor Swift Studies blog, but I...

March 2024

March 16, 2024

In the Doghouse

Does anyone still have a doghouse?

February 2024

February 13, 2024

Bigger Than Football

Football was for guys. It was just a thing they kind of let us show up...

December 2023

December 13, 2023

The Long Goodbye

The overlap between the chattering classes and the people who actually receive government benefits is...

November 2023

November 18, 2023

Oh Smell and See That the Lord is Good

It is perhaps the subtlest sense to lose.

November 15, 2023

Jennifer (Taylor’s Version)

I guess we are kind of Swifties now, and here are some things I think...

August 2023

August 22, 2023

Tempus. It Fugits.

Time only moves in one direction.

July 2023

July 03, 2023

Seahorse Goes to Seminary

A stuffed seahorse meets a sacred space.

April 2023

April 19, 2023

If You’re Suffering at Work, Here’s a Song for You

Wendell Kimbrough described this song to his Patreon supporters as what the Breastplate of St....

April 04, 2023

Lux eterna perpetuat eis

The clocks stopped all at once: the day moved on, The room was silent and...

January 2023

January 13, 2023

All My Favorite People Are. . .No Longer Here

I am thinking of all the spaces I have known where people of different opinions...

December 2022

December 31, 2022

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

There are some things we have had the curtain pulled back on that will never...

November 2022

November 19, 2022

All the Rings of Power Reviews I Wrote During the Show

While I am consumed by writing projects over here and unable to have coherent new...

September 2022

September 23, 2022

Top Ten Ways The Rings of Power Feels Like Tolkien to Me So Far

From the beginning, I think the show asks us to believe and remember that everything...

September 12, 2022

The King, The Goat, and the Book of Common Prayer

When I was a young and eager post-Vatican-II-influenced liturgy geek with an idealistic mania for...

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