The King Comes: Seeing the Nativity Through Scripture
by Daniel R. Spanjer All people know that they need salvation, even if the salvation for which they hope is that of a meal when they are...
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Apr 27, 2010
Light From Light (The Conservation Of Energy In The Nicene Creed, Heat Pumps, & Steve Perry Of
Don Chaffer, of the most excellent band Waterdeep, is one of my favorite people, and not just because he’s my neighbor. Well, he lives a...
Apr 13, 2010
Freedom Isn’t Free: An Essay on Digital Content
A Reflection on the Cost of Digital Content, with 10 Suggestions to Fellow Christians “ ‘Information wants to be free.’ So goes the...
Apr 9, 2010
Inefficient Love
I’ve been re-reading Andi Ashworth’s beautiful book Real Love for Real Life: The Art and Work of Caring with a great group of women from...
Apr 7, 2010
Writing the Old Roads
It’s 2:27 AM and I just got home from a little cabin in the Tennessee mountains, where a logger taught me something about art and...
Feb 22, 2010
I’m a Miner for Art of Gold
My friend John accompanied me on my trip to the Kansas City area recently to see a Pierce Pettis concert. It was the first time I had...
Feb 17, 2010
Five Questions For: Ron Block (Part II)
Numerology aside, this is Part 2 of 2 posts where I am asking 5 questions of 1 Ron Block. Here is Part 1 (questions 1-3). 4. What is...
Feb 16, 2010
Finding Criticism (II)
In the last couple of months I’ve been asked by several people how to go about finding a critique group. I’ve talked a bit about this...
Feb 14, 2010
Five Questions For: Ron Block (Part I)
Ron Block is an amazing musician and a regular smart alec. Also, he’s got mad insights. This is part one of two posts featuring a mere 5...
Feb 11, 2010
The Long Road Ahead
The last couple of months have been incredibly busy. The release of The Fiddler’s Gun and the Christmas season at the Rabbit Room kept me...
Feb 4, 2010
Take It and Run
First, let me give you just one little glimpse of why I love it here. I just walked up the stairs from my classroom and outside, around...
Jan 29, 2010
Conan’s Guitar Solo
Conan. Dude, I love that guy. Watching his last show was hard to do. You see somebody so good at what they do and you watch it get thrown...
Jan 27, 2010
The Chef & The Barista
Some friends just opened a coffee shop not far from my house, so I’ve been trying to support/loiter as much as possible in recent days....
Jan 7, 2010
Appreciating Your Betters
As a reader of books who also writes, I often feel a distinct, conflicting emotion when I read great books written by great writers....
Jan 5, 2010
There’s No Right or Wrong (In Art)
“That’s the beauty of music and art is that there’s no right or wrong. Whichever way you paint the picture, you’re still painting the...
Dec 16, 2009
To the Limit, Storytellers, Forthwith
What makes for great art? I won’t say I have no idea, but I am certainly on the shallow end of the pool, treading slowly and carefully...
Nov 17, 2009
Awakening Songs
One of the duties that proved most difficult for me (after creating sixty-two works of art, of course) was writing about why I did it...
Nov 12, 2009
A Question I Cannot Answer
Hopefully in the next year or so Russ Ramsey and I will publish an Advent book loosely based on the Behold the Lamb album. You may...
Oct 26, 2009
Time of Gold
Out, into the limpid gold of autumn I walked. It was my first walk in several weeks. I looked across at the Colorado foothills and saw...
Oct 9, 2009
A Trip to Kalmar: Part III of III
That night, I played a concert in a little church in Kalmar, and, try as I might, I didn’t see anyone that looked any more like me than...
Aug 17, 2009
Purchase! Or Be Eaten
The big day has arrived. NORTH! OR BE EATEN is on the shelves. It took a year to write, and it clocked in at about 120,000 words. I wrote...
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