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Finding Home: An Interview with Through Juniper Vale

“What does it mean to be home? Sarah Jane sat on the edge of a cliff asking herself this question as she listened to the wind carry...

Apr 23, 2018

Made For Delight

At my church, a small processional begins each service. The acolytes walk in holding a processional cross, the Gospel, and some candles....

Apr 13, 2018

Supper & Songs #1: Martha & Mary

Have you ever tried to cook ten pounds of pasta all at the same time? Add a guest list of thirty people plus two bands of hungry...

Apr 12, 2018

Disposable Beauty

I found a dead baby mouse on the bricks of our driveway. I picked it up and looked it over. It was so perfect, as if it were only...

Apr 6, 2018

Should I Stay?

To be truthful, I haven’t learned anything new. It’s been six months on the road so far, and when I take stock of what I’ve become, how...

Apr 3, 2018

Living Letters: Live on April 11th

A very special show is coming to Brentwood, Tennessee on April 11th, called Living Letters. Featuring Broadway actors Juliette and...

Apr 2, 2018

NEWS

Local Show Tomorrow: Storyteller Night

Tomorrow night’s Local Show will be a special one indeed. Instead of the usual songwriters-in-the-round, we will have a Storyteller Night...

Apr 1, 2018

His Heart Beats

We don’t know exactly how it all went down, but we do know this: Jesus was dead, and then he wasn’t. A battered corpse was stretched out...

Mar 7, 2018

Behind the Song: “God Rested”

Joseph of Arimathea got permission from Pilate to bury Jesus quickly because the Sabbath began at sundown, and the Jews weren’t supposed...

Feb 28, 2018

Behind the Song: “Always Good”

This song, though it may not sound like it, is a lament. That weekend I wrote the song and had the honor of singing it at the...

Feb 21, 2018

Behind the Song: “Well Done, Good And Faithful”

I took a break from the studio last fall to travel to Israel for the first time. Knowing this album was about the resurrection meant I...

Feb 6, 2018

Song & A Story: “Psalm 131”

This psalm is medicinal to me. It was recommended to me during my last semester of college by an old, wise professor of mine. I remember...

Feb 1, 2018

POETRY

The World Is Charged

I read in a textbook that Gerard Manley Hopkins entered a Jesuit Novitiate, vowed to never write poetry again, and burnt all the poems he...

Jan 23, 2018

Song & a Story: “Eyes on the Prize”

I told my friend Nita I was doing an album of hymns and spirituals and she told me I absolutely had to cover “Eyes on the Prize.” She...

Jan 11, 2018

My Place: A Short Film

A few months ago, I decided to build a presentation for speaking engagements. I had several booked for the coming year, so I spent a good...

Jan 9, 2018

Song & A Story: “Farthest Shore”

When producer Gabe Scott and I first convened to begin recording Far Side Of The Sea in the summer of 2015, I had very few complete songs...

Jan 2, 2018

Song & a Story: “Not Too Late”

How many times have we finished some kind of service or missions work and felt like it was possibly more beneficial for us than the...

Dec 28, 2017

A Message from the Proprietor

Greetings! It was a good year for the Rabbit Room, and I want to humbly invite you to make a tax-deductible year-end contribution so we...

The Sheer Face of Story (Why Writers Need an Anchor)

Dec 14, 2017