My newest Quirky Sermon: Desire (Under Construction). Specifically: A approach we might take with our desires, other than knee-jerk chasing or knee-jerk squashing. Our desire as electricity, engine, construction site: a space for encountering God. Watch it here. The sermon starts 19 minutes into the video, after the band. I had so much fun creating and …
I often look around at other people’s religious belief the way I look at their perfect lush lawns. How did they make that look so nice and tidy and easy? Mine will never be like that, and I’m at peace with that. (See Quirky Sermons.) I got to speak at True North Community Church this …
Opening up my mailbox to find indie (literary) books I might never otherwise discover is one of the pleasures of reviewing for IMAGE Journal. Each month I get to read and ponder a new one for their digest of delights, ImageUpdate, and recently it was Animal Heart, a collection of short stories by Paul Luikart. Luikart has worked …
We almost didn’t make the visit; it stormed in the morning. But the day shook off the rain and we headed east, miles of wet vineyards glowing green in the new light—my bearded beloved, my wee boys & me. Out in Greenport, at the house of our good friend V. Hansmann (poet, essayist, and host of …