Field Notes From the Real World
On the eighth day of our honeymoon, I had an existential crisis. I looked at my wife and said, “I just don’t think I…
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Interstellar Job
I am thinking now about Job and Interstellar. You know… the ancient story written a few thousand years ago and Christopher Nolan’s new space-odyssey…
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On Passing Helloes and Oak Trees
The blessing and the curse of looking strangers in the eye is that they’ll talk to you. At Sewanee, where I went to college (all…
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Memories of a Rainy Day in Camp
Or, The Day We Sang the Songs Rain drums a steady rhythm on my tent fly. Just a gentle shower by backcountry standards, but…
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The King’s Chambers Are Getting Empty
Amphibians are among the unsung heroes of their ecosystems. Frogs, toads, and salamanders do a lot of heavy lifting in their habitats – smack dab in the middle of the food chain, they eat a lot of bugs and provide food for a lot of larger critters.
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Tending the Vine at Church of the Woods
From this angle, the land becomes precisely what one might not expect –it becomes a church. Specifically, Church of the Woods, a new ministry created and chaplained by Reverend Steve Blackmer, an Episcopal priest in the diocese of New Hampshire and executive director of Kairos Earth.
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Tea is Powerful: An Interview with Rev. Becca Stevens
Interwoven moments of joy, brazenness, leadership, and humility Nashville is filled with the songs of budding musicians floating through the air, the neon lights…
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Homo Stulto
The Importance of Words There is a man at my former church whose prayers I relish. Most people pray for the church, the world,…
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#PrivilegedProbs
Priveleged, White, First World Problems “Sounds like a privileged, white, First World problem to me,” smirks my privileged, white, First World acquaintance upon discovering my…
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An Ecological Eschatology?
Certainly there is much compelling evidence in scripture that we humans are charged to care for the rest of creation. To steward resources responsibly. To respect the created order and to protect the natural world.
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