Flannery O’Connor Is Getting Her Own Stamp
In honor of Flannery O’Connor’s newly announced stamp series, here is a link to a New Yorker article comprised of excerpts from her journal
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Of Lithium and Grace
I have a new post at the OnFaith site about the new Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck and a recent Sufjan Stevens show
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Dynamics of Biblical Mystery
I have a review of Beale and Gladd’s recent book on inner-biblical exegesis, entitled Hidden But Now Revealed: A Biblical Theology of Mystery, over at
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Meaning and Biblical Faith
Above: Rembrandt, “The Artist in His Studio” (c. 1628) Those who profess the Christian faith cannot rely on a general cultural literacy about
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Saying It Anew: Preaching, Teaching, and Defamiliarization
(Above: a defamiliarized street sign in Montmartre) I have always been interested in how God’s Word is communicated in the Scriptures by the
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Calvin the Exegete
In Richard Muller’s helpful article entitled “Calvin’s Exegesis of Old Testament Prophecies” he summarizes the great Reformer’s approach and in doing so touches
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Palm Sunday and Unmet Expectations
Woody Allen famously said that 80 percent of life is just showing up. He was talking about the big plans that people make but
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From Deep to Deep: Water in Psalm 42
I have considered Psalm 42 (“As a deer pants for water brooks…”) among my favorite psalms for some time. The highly intimate prayer speaks
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Where the Morning Lies
This poem by Emily Dickinson is about a child’s question that is really a human question, a Sunday-morning congregation’s question. It struck me
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Resisting a Spirit of Lethargy Part 2
In the second of two posts of at Christward Collective on spiritual lethargy and the letter to the Hebrews (part one can be
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