A Liturgy for Beginning an Artistic Work
Happy New Year, dear friends. Here is a liturgy for all the beautiful things you will bring into being this year—both works of art and...
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Jul 12, 2016
Tonight: Reading for the Common Good
Edit: Thanks for coming folks. It was a great evening and a fascinating conversation. Join us at the Art House tonight at 7:00pm where...
Jul 11, 2016
England: The Conclusion
About a year ago Eric Peters and I began chronicling our twelve-day tour of England, a flurry of concerts that were booked in part so...
Jul 8, 2016
Interweaving Life and Reading
Since my book Reading For the Common Good (RFTCG) came out last month, I’ve had numerous people ask me about the connections between it...
Jul 5, 2016
Slow Church Reading Group Week 2: Ecology
A few weeks ago, @Pete posted the following in the Rabbit Room discussion forum: “… When I look at the news (or Facebook) these days, I’m...
Jul 5, 2016
The Inklings, Diana Glyer, and the Art of Community
Several years ago I played a gig with the great Phil Keaggy, and he told me he had just read a book about the Inklings in which I was...
Jul 1, 2016
Lark Rise to Candleford
The hamlet stood on a gentle rise in the flat, wheat-growing north-east corner of Oxfordshire. We will call it Lark Rise because of the...
Jun 30, 2016
Narnia, Lilith, and Banjos
I saw Lester Flatt, of Flatt & Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Breakdown/Beverly Hillbillies fame, in 1976 when I was 12 years old, on television...
Jun 28, 2016
Slow Church Discussion: Week 1.5
As we contemplate Slow Church, it seems appropriate that the natives are crying for slower reading. Over the past week, we’ve enjoyed...
Jun 27, 2016
Reading for the Common Good – Author Event
At 7:00pm on Tuesday, July 12th, join us at the Art House in Nashville where we’ll host C. Christopher Smith (coauthor of Slow Church)...
Jun 21, 2016
Slow Church Discussion: Week One
Welcome to Rabbit Room Book Group. We’re so very glad that you’re here. Before we get started, some housekeeping: For the next three...
Jun 20, 2016
“Beauty is never necessary”: Alexander Schmemann’s For the Life of the World
“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens,” wrote Chesterton, contrasting that poetical sanity with the craziness of the...
Jun 9, 2016
You Holy Fools (Part 2 of 3)
I loved that first year of teaching high school literature, but I didn’t love the way lesson prep set me behind on my own reading....
Jun 9, 2016
The RR Book Group: Slow Church
Church, done well, is a glorious mess. A few years ago, our church community endured a particularly difficult season. A handful of...
Jun 2, 2016
Summer Reading: Three Books That You Love
We love our literature here at The Rabbit Room. Our web store is full of achingly beautiful fiction like Shiloh and The Fiddler’s Gun;...
May 20, 2016
Collaboration on The Wishes of the Fish King
Collaboration is such a powerful thing. When done well, it can bring together two unique visions — each complimenting the other — to form...
May 10, 2016
Remembering What We Mean
“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run...
May 9, 2016
Book Review: Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious
Culture critic and religion professor David Dark wastes no time getting to the provocative claim of his new book, Life’s Too Short to...
May 2, 2016
The Wishes of the Fish King
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” ― C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet Today Doug McKelvey and I launch a...
Apr 29, 2016
Proper Introductions: George MacDonald
G.K. Chesterton called him “one of the three or four greatest men of the 19th century.” Madeleine L’Engle said he was the “grandfather of...
Apr 27, 2016
The River Fox Chapter Seven: Tombow Love You!
[Fantasy adventure and slapstick cartoon humor. Martin runs from dragons and bandits, while Marco tries to break out of a desert camp. ...
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