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April 2015

April 03, 2015

Good Friday Sermon: “I Thirst”

This is the manuscript of a sermon preached at Stone Hill Church in Princeton, NJ....

February 2015

February 24, 2015

On Lectio Divina

READING (PRAYING?) FOR SPRING Lectio Divina is Latin for divine or sacred reading. The contemplative...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Unpacking the Antlitz Family Crest

In addition to buying loads of diapers and attending birthing class with Ursula, our German...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

2014 was the Tops: Lists of Varying Sizes and/or Degrees: MUSIC

1. NICKEL CREEK: A Dotted Line Perhaps my most anticipated record of the past few...

December 22, 2014

Advent Hymns: Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

This is the fourth and final installment of my series on the great hymns of...

December 15, 2014

Advent Hymns: Savior of the Nations, Come

"Savior of the Nations, Comes" by Holy City Hymns from Advent No. 2 (2014) Savior...

December 07, 2014

Advent Hymns: A Hymn of Advent

This is the second installment of a series on the great hymns of Advent. To learn...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Advent Hymns: O Come, O Come Emmanuel

This is the first installment of a series on the great hymns of Advent. To...

November 28, 2014

ADVENT Resources with 30% off Amazon Discount Code

Check out these great Advent resources. Please buy from my links to Amazon and help support...

November 28, 2014

Advent: What It Is & Why You Need It

Each year, the season of Advent commences on the fourth Sunday before December 25. Unlike...

October 2014

October 14, 2014

A Review of McDonagh’s Calvary: Reflections on a Good Priest

Spoiler alert (or should I say plot revealer?). If you don’t 1) already know what...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Study, Pray, Love: Simone Weil on Attention

Academic work, for the modern imagination, is often dominated by the idea that school is...

September 08, 2014

My life. All of our lives, really: a review of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood (2014)

Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s newest film, may be duly described as spectacular. The film was released...

September 01, 2014

Let’s, everyone, settle down…Science and Religion: Part Three

For part three of the series on Science and Religion (Go here to review Part...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

“Ah, this life, this world”: Four Reasons Why I Love Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

In anticipation of the release of Lila, her latest novel, in early autumn (available for...

August 11, 2014

Let’s, everyone, settle down…Science and Religion: Part Two

In Part 1 on this series on the relationship of science and religion, I tried...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Let’s, everyone, settle down…Science and Religion: Part One

This will be at least a three part series exploring the relationship between science and...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Review: Philip Gröning’s Into Great Silence (2006)

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Part the Second: Celestial Navigation OR The Stars of Poetry OR What are you looking at? OR Where the hell are we? and how the hell did we get here? and where the hell are we going anyway? OR Prose on Poetry: Frost, Keats, Shakespeare, and Dante, OR Polaris…Is that in France? OR I’m sorry

This is part two of a series, which despite its obnoxiously long title, is simply...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

AN END OF SUFFERING: not ridding the world of it (only Good Lord, let this cup pass) but its telos

CAVEATS Before I write a word about suffering, it’s important to qualify what I am...

April 06, 2014

Part Un: Celestial Navigation OR The Stars of Poetry OR What are you looking at? OR Where the hell are we? and how the hell did we get here? and where the hell are we going anyway? OR Prose on Poetry: Frost, Keats, Dante, Shakespeare OR Polaris…Is that in France? OR I’m sorry

After a brief hiatus due to general busyness with work and/or just plain ol’ living...

March 2014

March 09, 2014

Lies, Damned Lies: a review of Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine, starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Louis C.K. is written and directed by...

March 07, 2014

OLD HYMNS FOR NEW PEOPLE: Stream Page CXVI’s Newest Album “Lent to Maundy Thursday”

OLD HYMNS FOR NEW PEOPLE Page CXVI is a project that aims to make hymns...

March 04, 2014

Three Reasons Why We Need Lent

Ash Wednesday is right around the corner. On this solemn day, the marks placed on...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Please Make the Bad Man Stop OR The End of Winter is Nigh OR Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Take on Things

After a very long, cold, and white winter in the Dirty, the past weekend of...

February 16, 2014

e.e. cummings and David Bentley Hart on Being, naturalism, and wonder

LISTEN TO e.e. cummings READ HIS OWN POEM i thank You God for most this...

February 10, 2014

Emily Dickinson “There is no Frigate like a Book”

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Courses...

February 06, 2014

On Metaphor: An Oldie but a Goodie

Separation of referring and defining is at the very heart of metaphorical speaking and is...

February 02, 2014

Review: The Tree of Life (2011)

The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, is written and...

January 2014

January 26, 2014

Part 2: A Brief History of Time or Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Or Ain’t Nobody Got Time For Dat or Throw Out Your Digital Watch or Live in the Now

Part 2 of a two-part series with unnecessarily long titles on time. This post is...