Poetic Faith: A Brief Prologue
The reading is underway, but while I’m still digesting the first few hundred pages, I thought I’d share a bit of background on the Poetic Faith “seminar.” To start with,…
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I am now officially eighteen days into my first sabbatical. The cycles of euphoria, lethargy, manic productivity, and hubristic goal-setting have been rapid and slightly dizzying thus far. When I…
Read moreDescent Into Resurrection
This Good Friday, it’s a special privilege to share some of my journey from the past few years on my friend and fellow Westmont alumn Ashley Hales’s blog, Circling the…
Read moreThe Word from Porter Street, #13
In this installment, I go a bit “meta” in talking about my personal interest in hymns as a Christian and what it might mean to be not just a scholar…
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The Word from Porter Street, #5
This installment offers an “applied research” look at the end of the world, via Cotton Mather; I also read Isaac Watts’ “There Is a Land of Pure Delight.” Approximate length:…
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