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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 07, 2025

The Showgirl Report

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

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 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...

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...

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...

July 2023

July 03, 2023

Seahorse Goes to Seminary

A stuffed seahorse meets a sacred space.

April 2023

April 04, 2023

Lux eterna perpetuat eis

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

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...

July 2022

July 17, 2022

Zumba Epiphany

What does this dream mean? I have no idea. But I can tell you that...

April 2022

April 06, 2022

For Southerners, To Explain Why

Place is part of vocation. I am from the Midwest, but I live in the...

February 2022

February 21, 2022

Catalogue of Ships

The books tell you the boats will come back, after the brief turbulence of sea;...

November 2021

November 01, 2021

Candy, WandaVision, Community, and Grace

At this particular thin place we meet so many things, but one of them is...

September 2021

September 27, 2021

Songs of Praise – and Vocation

I've recently been watching previous episodes of the famous BBC TV program (I should...

August 2021

August 11, 2021

Use the Breath: On What Music Teaches Us About Life

Written in 2014 to honor the first anniversary of the death of a beloved college...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Merry Advent

The kingdom of justice and peace that George Bailey wants, for two hours, just does...

March 2018

March 20, 2018

Joy, Toil, Rest, Busyness, and Being Back

You can picture me over the last few weeks being overscheduled. But you can also...

December 2017

December 01, 2017

Second Birth

That advent is a longer one, and hard: Its carols have thorns in them, and...

November 2017

November 23, 2017

#nowthankweallourgod #thanksgiving

The goodness of the created order. Positive images of mothers. Harmony by Bach. We sang...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Poetic Legacy: A poem about poets

My head is full of poems tonight: They echo in a speaking voice and tell...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

The Church, As it Is the Body of Christ

Small as a mustard seed and just as fair, The seeds of faith are planted...

September 13, 2017

The Frosting on the Cake, Or Why We Need Artists

By Christ John Otto, from a forthcoming book. A worldview is a way of processing...