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Beyond the Blues: Poet Mary Ruefle’s Stunning Color Spectrum of Sadnesses
“There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy… the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul… the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos,” Paul Goodman wrote half a century ago in his taxonomy of the nine kinds of silence.
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Still under-policed and over-imprisoned
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Postmodernism and the Christian Faith
I first went deep into postmodernism at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. Yes, that’s correct. A conservative Reformed seminary had me reading books on postmodernism in the mid-1990s.
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May the Love of Christ Dwell Deeply
When I taught confirmation classes at our church, I looked upon a room of eager (or not-so-eager) middle schoolers with their parents and said, “I care a lot less about whether you become a member of this church than that you become a follower of Jesus Christ.
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Post Script | August 15, 2022
Last Friday afternoon, my mother, my oldest daughter, Audrey, and I hopped into the car to head to a local coffee shop. On the way, Audrey said something about being in a “foreign country,” and my mom registered shock.
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Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?” asks the poetic physicist and scientific novelist Alan Lightman on the pages of his exquisite inquiry into the nature of existence.
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The Soul, the Universe, and the Vastness of Music: Composer Caroline Shaw Brings Whitman and Tennyson to Life in the Spirit of the Golden Record
All of our most inexpressible feelings — our loneliness and our longing, our grief and our famishing hunger for meaning — are scale models of our great cosmic loneliness, microcosms of the immense silence of spacetime itself.
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How to Bear Your Suffering: The Young Poet Anne Reeve Aldrich’s Extraordinary Letter to Emily Dickinson
“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on,” Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Stoic strategy for turning suffering into strength.
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Methodism & Christian Nationalism
What is “Christian Nationalism” and how should Methodists think about it? Arkansas United Methodist Bishop Gary Mueller recently commented to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette about United Methodism’s split: “There are parts of the church in which traditional Trinitarian thinking is beginning to
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Front Porch Reflections 
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