Five Liturgies for the Christmas Season from Every Moment Holy
A Liturgy for the Wrapping of Christmas Gifts by Wayne Garvey and Douglas McKelvey O Great Giver of All Good Gifts, I sit amongst rolls...
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Mar 1, 2009
In a Hole in the Ground There Lived an Artist
Justin Gerard is one of my all-time favorite illustrators. He’s responsible for the cover of my album The Far Country, as well as the...
Feb 23, 2009
Song of the Day Meditation: Mystery, Defeat and Death
My evening reading for the last couple weeks has consisted of a book of essays by British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Why I...
Feb 22, 2009
Words Under The Words: The Poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye
While we were in college, my then-girlfriend, now wife, Danielle, introduced me to the poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye. Though I was not...
Feb 18, 2009
Susan O’Farrell’s Notebook (Education of a Grade School Pharisee, Part 1)
Fifth grade wasn’t kind to Susan O’Farrell. No longer an undifferentiated mass of squirming humanity, our class at Miller Elementary...
Feb 10, 2009
Two, Part II: Churchianity or Chicks, Booze, and Bongs
When we come to know the forgiveness of God in Christ and accept His life into our humanity, there’s one thing that doesn’t seem to...
Feb 8, 2009
After I’m Gone
Remember the movie “Big Fish” from 2003? I recall sitting in my living room as the credits rolled, being struck by a thought I had never...
Jan 27, 2009
Myth and Rationality, Part 2
Rolland Hein wrote: Myths are, first of all, stories: stories which confront us with something transcendent and eternal (Christian...
Jan 25, 2009
The Invisible Hand Dilemma
Two years ago I had a chance to sit under the instruction of one of my favorite fictional authors, Orson Scott Card. Well, he isn’t...
Jan 19, 2009
“Another Steed In The Stable” or “Why I Flee From Love”
I’m a one guitar man. Have been from the beginning. And I’ve secretly been suspicious of those who have numerous guitars as one would...
Jan 18, 2009
Brevity, Part 2 – Epiphany All Skate
a piece on the discipline of brevity, and it was a ton of fun to hear your responses. So today I’m sitting here tucked away in the...
Jan 18, 2009
The British Woman Living Inside My GPS
Yesterday afternoon, I loaded up the tour bus (i.e., minivan) with guitars, gear, iPod and a cello. Genial cellist and all-around cordial...
Jan 15, 2009
Myth and Rationality
Myth is scoffed at because reason has disproved it, so they say. It’s interesting as far as sociocultural studies go, but where’s the...
Jan 15, 2009
My Kind of News: A Miracle On the Hudson
I don’t watch the evening news. The white noise of so many busy-body blabbermouths saying the same things over and over again usually...
Jan 13, 2009
Revival Soup
Yellow onions, garlic and fresh ginger are sfubzling away over a low heat on the stove. (Sfubzling: (the “s” is silent) a little-known...
Jan 4, 2009
Happy Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien
Last week was J.R.R. Tolkien’s 117th birthday. I give you some excerpts from his excellent work, “On Fairy-Stories,” on art, fairy...
Dec 30, 2008
Twilight: I Was Not Dazzled
I have to begin this review of Twilight with a disclaimer. I have only read the first book in the series. That’s important and counts as...
Dec 24, 2008
Virtual Advent Wreath, Christmas – Immanuel, God with Us
Here in these weeks leading up to Christmas, we have been posting a series of meditations focused on the story of Jesus’ birth from the...
Dec 24, 2008
Grace of Michigan
I was back in Michigan for the second time in three-and-a-half weeks. Knowing that it was a long drive to our ultimate destination of...
Dec 22, 2008
The Corners of our Eyes
“All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied. For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what...
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