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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Jan 15, 2014
Beautiful Someday
I love that moment in “The Ugly Duckling” when the poor, persecuted duckling, set upon on every side by ducks and hens and cats and...
Jan 14, 2014
The Light on the Hills
I’ve been reading some old stories in preparation for sharing some on Fridays over at Story Warren and I came across this little gem from...
Jan 13, 2014
Tales of the New Creation
“I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and...
Dec 20, 2013
The Best Tale That C. S. Lewis Ever Told
The wind was bright and sharp, the blue sky cold, our skin reddened with the icy air, but we didn’t mind. The day of the C. S. Lewis...
Dec 11, 2013
I Want to Be a Clone: How Steve Taylor Helped Me Find Myself
There’s no doubt that the Rabbit Room is full of my people, but I haven’t always known who my people were. The first time I found my...
Dec 9, 2013
Advent Calendar: Games, Apps, and Presents!
The Facebook app sneaks those other app recommendations in so smoothly. I went through the emotions of interest to intrigue to disgust in...
Dec 4, 2013
Adapted from the Book
So, I saw Ender’s Game, the movie, last night. This is not a movie review, but the movie wasn’t too bad, I guess. It’s just when you love...
Dec 3, 2013
Of Plumbers and Plumbing
Of all the construction disciplines, plumbing is my favorite. It’s quiet—contemplative even. There aren’t so many power tools whining....
Dec 2, 2013
Lo, How a Rose
I was mad at God. It was the 30th of November, a date by which I’ve traditionally completed all of my Christmas shopping, planned my...
Nov 27, 2013
Concerning Beauty
“There is but one sin,” wrote G.K. Chesterton: “to call a green leaf grey.” Which is to say, every kind of sin derives from a willful...
Nov 22, 2013
God be thanked for the life of C. S. Lewis
“Come, let us worship God, wonderful in his saints!” So ended Michael Ward’s introduction in our program today for the C.S. Lewis...
Nov 22, 2013
The Joys of Sad Stories
A while back a couple of little girls came into my wife’s library and asked, “Do you have any sad books?” What a great question. There’s...
Nov 11, 2013
Paying Attention
A while back I was in the library checking my email on the public computers. The patrons of the library’s public computers constitute...
Nov 4, 2013
Dulce Domum
When I was at Hutchmoot, people kept asking me if Philip and I lived at the beach. I thought they were teasing at first. “Yeah, we do,...
Oct 30, 2013
A Hutchmoot Trilogy
A few months after coming home from Hutchmoot 2012, I stumbled onto an analogy for my three-year experience with this conference: Star...
Oct 28, 2013
How to Read Moby Dick
Moby Dick is one of those books that everyone knows about but very few people have actually read—though, for some reason, people feel...
Oct 17, 2013
Alone in the Light
There was a dead beetle on the bathroom floor the night I got home from Hutchmoot. I thought it was dead, anyway, until I turned on the...
Oct 15, 2013
Hutchmoot Sound Off
Wow. Thank you. Thank you all so much for making Hutchmoot 2013 such an unforgettable weekend. I can hardly believe you let us keep doing...
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