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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Sep 29, 2014
Rembrandt Is in the Wind
[The following is an excerpt from my essay by the same title in the forthcoming Molehill, Vol. III.] Rembrandt is in the wind. The sea...
Sep 4, 2014
The S Towns
There’s a string of three towns outside Fall River, Massachusetts that I nicknamed “The S Towns” because Somerset, Swansea, and Seekonk...
Sep 3, 2014
Sticking It To God: Rebellious Stories As a Cliche to Play Against
“The sacred exists and is stronger than all our rebellions.” Czeslaw Milosz Skipping the qualifiers, we live in an era where rebellion...
Aug 28, 2014
Light Eternal in London
A little over a week ago, my brother Joel and I forayed out into the darkling streets of nine o’clock London to catch a late concert at...
Aug 20, 2014
A Superstition Transformed
[Editor’s note: Say hello to Shannon McDermott. She wrote this piece after reading the Wingfeather Saga and she’s agreed to let us use it...
Aug 20, 2014
Comic Parenting Guilt
The inaugural Hutchmoot in 2010 was something else. All the speakers were amazing. Walter Wangerin, Jr. was masterful. Months later,...
Aug 13, 2014
The Inevitable Plot Line
Sometimes, in a particular season of life, a passage or book of the Bible can grab hold of you and wrap its words around your soul. For...
Aug 12, 2014
Rabbit Room Press Announces: The World According to Narnia
The fall of 2005 was a big time for the Time Warner media empire. On the movie side of things, they put out the Dukes of Hazzard. Time...
Jul 21, 2014
Gonna take a while . . .
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” —Parker Palmer I recently spent some...
Jun 23, 2014
Every Life’s Telling
“Without the truths that are lodged in every life’s telling, the old narratives thin, become brittle, and shatter, and we are left in...
Jun 9, 2014
Providence
Western Kentucky is riddled with underground coal mines. When I was five or six, somebody told me that there was a big one dug right...
May 29, 2014
Why Are Storytellers Often Bad Preachers and Preachers Often Bad Storytellers?
This subject deserves more attention, but consider this a timid foray into a field with tall grass and various lurking beasts all of...
May 19, 2014
Mystery Unsolved
It happened driving home the other day and I am nearly sure it was not my fault. Yes, I was on the phone and the conversation was a touch...
May 8, 2014
New Short: The Oracle of Philadelphia
You may recall that I’m on a mission to write a short story each month this year. I started in February, and that story was released in...
Apr 30, 2014
The Present Eternity
For the first time in weeks, I woke to the sun in my curtains, and it felt like the break of spring. It may be the Sunshine State, but...
Apr 29, 2014
Ellen and the Peacock, or “What if?”
Here’s Ellen and the Peacock, a piece I did a while back. (See the full image below). It’s story-ish looking (as most of my paintings...
Apr 23, 2014
Ink Between the Lines
Not a day goes by that I don’t look down and see it. Every day, at least one person asks about the symbol tattooed on my arm. “What’s...
Apr 21, 2014
Garden Tomatoes and Rocket Ships
If all goes according to plan, in the fall I will be filling in for my colleague on sabbatical and teaching the course “Sustainability in...
Apr 15, 2014
Tremble – A Lenten Reflection
I love aspen trees. When I was a child, my dad often traveled on business and came home with gifts for us. I have abalone jewelry from...
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