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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...

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...

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...

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...

September 2022

September 05, 2022

From His Own Fullness All He Takes Away

We were all deprived of the Way of Affirmation for over two years - the...

August 2022

August 04, 2022

We’re Just In It for the Money

Here was an attempt to truly infuse liberal arts thinking throughout the curriculum and bring...

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;...

January 2022

January 24, 2022

From Epiphany Me to Advent Me

I'm afraid I left you to untangle the lights.

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...

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...

June 2021

June 05, 2021

A Thousand Points of Very Painful Light

Maybe the best metaphor for autism is that other one about ducks - being nibbled...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Coronavirus Pilgrimage

As COVID slowly reduces its risk to the level of risks I accept every day...

May 12, 2021

This Strangest Eastertide

Here's a friendly reminder we're still in the strange almost post-COVID Easter season....

March 2021

March 25, 2021

Top Ten Things I’ve Forgotten How to Use During the Pandemic

Zoom can put lipstick on you. Really.

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Beers With Jesus

Long ago, when people could gather together, in a friendly neighborhood place that could have doubled...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Coronavirus Hermitage

Being a hermit is hard. It was hard, as Merton's story shows, even for a man...

December 2020

December 28, 2020

Sanctifying the Computer

What we need, I think, is not a bifurcation between "real" and "online" life, but...

December 06, 2020

The Story of Dog

This has not much to do with money or economics. It has something to do...

November 2020

November 07, 2020

Confessions of an Ex-Rush-Limbaugh Fan Who Eats Tofu: The 2020 Version

This is my childhood's paradox: we had no fear that asking all the classic theological...