The Rabbit Room

The Councillor is clearly pragmatic – to a fault. His eyes are blinded to the concept of beauty as being important. I think of the start of Makoto Fujimura’s “Culture Care”, where his wife comes home with a bouquet of flowers, though Mako & his wife are barely getting by financially. Mako relates that he was initially angry, but then his wife…[Read more]

Then two Voices seem to embody the Letter of the Law & the Spirit of the Law. Kind of a “bad cop, good cop” pairing. It shows that both holiness & grace vitally matter.

It means that any type of creation can be generative, to borrow Makoto Fujimura’s term. Singer-songwriter Denison Witmer says of his kids that they’re his greatest creative endeavor. It means that my own songwriting can be generative, & it’s reflecting the image of God through me, but so is caring for my son who has autism, so is teaching a…[Read more]

C.S. Lewis wrote, “Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us…but with this tremendous difference that it really happened. Myths & fairy tales are often epic in scale, or may seem too good to be true. The Story that God is telling through The Gospel is certainly unconventional, but it inspires wonder, as fairy tales do,…[Read more]

The resolution of “The Horse & His Boy”, especially the moment when Aslan tells Shasta/Cor & Aravis that there weren’t multiple lions – & that he was the lion they had seen & been so scared of, when, in reality, he was the quiet, unseen hand guiding their way.