There is a monster that hides in the shadows of the office or studio of every creative person. It is the voice that says, “it has already been done.” The voice of defeatism. It voices the fear of us all, giving word to the quiver of our souls, that we may actually have nothing new [...]

The tendency of many North American Christians to assume that we merely have to pick up the Scriptures to understand them is compared to the view that if Jesus had joined us on the Emmaus Road, we necessarily would have recognized him. However, rightly seeing the Lord, or rightly reading the Scriptures, is not a [...]

The whole liturgy enacted over the whole Christian year developed over a lifetime is the presumption necessary to enable one sermon to concentrate on a few texts and specifiable topics. Stanley Hauerwas This is an interesting statement, I find myself in this tension every time I prepare to teach. The question of how much of [...]

I just began reading through an anthology of Stanley Hauerwas’ works, The Hauerwas Reader. I am still very early into the readings, still going through his project & methodology, but came across this great contrast of thought: The Lutheran theologian Gilbert Meilaender is much closer to the truth when he suggests that two of the most basic [...]

A friend sent me an email about Mars Hills Graduate school, a few weeks back. As I was trying to clean out my inbox, I finally got around to looking it over. At the end of the forwarded email, there were a few links to some articles from The Other Journal, which I’m guessing is [...]