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Making as Vocation: Is Art Commerce or Expression? (Homebound Session Preview)

In this special preview of their Hutchmoot: Homebound session, John Hendrix and Eddy Efaw discuss the age-old tension between art and commerce.

Peanut Butter & the Marriage Supper of the Lamb

I bolted up the stairs, heart racing in response to my husband’s call. He was the calm one, the unflappable med student; that level of urgency in his voice froze my blood. Bursting into the bathroom, I saw. Our one-year-old son, his eyes and lips swollen, his perfect round baby belly splotchy with an ugly red rash. My husband, already on the phone with the pediatrician, asking, “Do we give Benadryl, or bring him into the ER for Epinephrine?”

Our life changed that moment.

Rabbit Trails #33

Jonny Jimison is back with the thirty-third edition of his beloved comic, Rabbit Trails.

Renovaré Book Club: An Invitation

Isn’t this what you yearn for? Aren’t you tired of living at a pace that blurs out beauty, peace, or joy? Don’t you want to be at home?

–Rich Villodas, The Deeply Formed Life

The Habit Podcast: Ashley Hales on a Spacious Life

This week on The Habit Podcast, Jonathan Rogers talks with Ashley Hales, a writer, speaker, and host of the Finding Holy Podcast.

Hutchmoot Podcast & Video: Poetry, Imagination’s Wake-Up Call

The Hutchmoot Podcast features some of our favorite sessions recorded at our annual conference which celebrates art, music, story, and faith in all their many intersections. Today, it is our pleasure to share a session led by Malcolm Guite and Mark Meynell called “Poetry: Imagination’s Wake-Up Call” from 2020’s Hutchmoot: Homebound, in both video and audio form.

The Violent Grace of The Green Knight

Author’s note: This essay contains spoilers for the 14th century British poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the 2021 film The Green Knight. If I spoil the poem for you, well, your bad, you’ve had six centuries to catch up. However, spoiling the film for you would be more understandable, so perhaps steer clear until you’ve seen it.

A True Artist Is Always Learning: Reflections from Hutchmoot Homebound 2020

Hutchmoot: Homebound, a seat at the table for everyone. Trusting these words to be true, my seventeen high school students and I registered for this online conference, hoping it would feel welcoming and inviting. The event was more than we could have hoped or imagined.