Yesterday fellow saint and sinner Tammy shared this meditation on the meaning of Good Friday; but its use of J.R.R. Tolkien’s term, “eucatastrophe,” also makes it an Easter sermon for anyone anywhere who has sat, metaphorically speaking, outside a tomb [...]
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. This final victory lap of the book; the last touches on a manuscript that I now a bit bashfully would let other eyes see for the very first time: they were supposed to [...]
We were driving home from school during Holy Week last year when I put the question before my then four-year-old son. “Do you know what happens this weekend?,” I had asked him- and I’d be lying to say I had [...]
In recent days, Diana Butler Bass and Andrew Sullivan (in a Newsweek cover story, “Forget the Church, Follow Jesus”) have both given expression to some angst about the death of the church. Bass has gone on to hold out the [...]
Happy Easter, everyone! Christ is risen, which is something I have some thoughts and even grumblings about- yes, you read that correctly- so stay tuned for another post about that. In the meantime, the following review of “Touchback,” opening in [...]