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...
top of page
Latest Article
Featured Categories
Books
Poetry
Music
Film
Culture
Community
Read More from the Rabbit Room
Apr 14, 2014
The Pursuit of Community
For a generation of British children, growing up in the UK meant there was a good chance that you cut your literary teeth on the writing...
Apr 8, 2014
Wordlessly
“There’s nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.” —Michael Bassey Johnson “Good...
Mar 20, 2014
Lend Me Your Eyes
“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”—C.S. Lewis “Lend me your eyes, I can change what you see . ....
Mar 19, 2014
A Tricycle, A Leg Trap
My friend Hilton grew up poor in South Alabama. He and his older brother didn’t have a lot of toys, but they did have one tricycle to...
Mar 18, 2014
Short Story: The Timely Arrival of Barnabas Bead
The past year has been incredibly busy. There have been Hutchmoots (yes, plural), Kickstarter campaigns, Molehills, memberships, Anglican...
Mar 17, 2014
Love Begets
On November 22 of last year, I lost my voice. I’m not talking laryngitis; I mean my words. They scattered from me like a covey of quail,...
Mar 10, 2014
Viking Boots
Summer of 2012 found me flying over to Europe for three weeks of touring with Alison Krauss and Union Station. One of the best parts of...
Mar 5, 2014
Don’t You Want to Thank Someone? Yes, I do.
Twelve years ago at a Wesleyan college in Indiana, I played my first show as Andrew Peterson’s full-time right-hand man. Tonight in...
Mar 3, 2014
Writing Our Tragedies
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be working through two Greek tragedies with my students. The first is Oedipus Rex, a devastating story...
Feb 27, 2014
Here Be Dragons
At the most recent Hutchmoot, Andrew Peterson and I gave a talk called “Writing Close to the Earth.” Andrew got on the subject of...
Feb 26, 2014
Neighbors Episode 1: Our Father
A few weeks ago, Jakob Lewis (a friend from church) sent me the first episode of his new podcast, Neighbors, wondering if it might be of...
Feb 17, 2014
An Epic Tale in Eight Hours a Day
When my aunt passed away, I inherited a little black journal of my grandfather’s that she had kept. It’s just big enough to hold in one...
Feb 14, 2014
A Valentine’s Day Meditation
“I was terribly shy as a boy,” the man said. “Excruciatingly shy. But in third grade there was a girl I liked, and somehow I mustered up...
Feb 11, 2014
The Original Feechie
When I was a graduate student at Vanderbilt, I went back to my hometown in Georgia to work on a remodeling crew. One of my crewmates was...
Feb 10, 2014
The Framework for Hope
It seems unlikely that an Irish stranger would be invited to pull her chair out of the shadows and join the conversation, yet here I am,...
Jan 23, 2014
The Sniper
My cousin Jason worked for a heating and air conditioning company when he was in high school. They took care of the huge air conditioning...
Jan 21, 2014
A Slave in My Own Kingdom (by Helena Sorensen)
Many of you know Helena Sorensen from Hutchmoot last year. She is the author of Shiloh, a Young Adult Fantasy I am eager to read. I love...
Jan 17, 2014
What Seems To Be (by Kelly Keller)
Kelly Keller is another Hutchmooter from the amazing and terrifying Charlotte hordes. This post reminds me of a quotation our noble...
bottom of page