What does God want with so many stars and black holes in infinite space? What is God’s plan on rainy nights when the wind…
The Uncomfortable Path to Maturity
Maturity and Flourishing / Spirituality
Long before I heard the term, disequilibrium was a part of the process of growth in my life. It’s the term educational theorists use…
A Poetic Endnote on Sleep
I know that some people think me a little compulsive for always glancing through the endnotes of books by authors I respect. Endnotes aren’t…
Finding Silence
Sometimes silence can communicate far more than words can imagine. In St John’s Revelation, the last book in the biblical canon, the apostle is…
Culture Care (Makoto Fujimura, 2014)
Books / Maturity and Flourishing / Visual Art / Work and Rest
Beauty in Life An important word for artist Makoto Fujimura is generative, by which he means anything that brings beauty into life to bring…
In Praise of Inefficiency
One proof of capitalism’s success can be seen in the unquestioned assumption that its values always contribute to human flourishing. Efficiency and productivity, for…
Seeing beyond the traces
Creation / Faith / Spirituality
One of the things I love about winter in Minnesota is how tracks are left to tell a story in newly fallen snow. In…
I Am Addicted to Diversion. Are You?
Maturity and Flourishing / Pluralistic World
Here are two anecdotes, and the point I want to make. One. This past weekend I checked a spy novel out of the library,…
A Very Comfortable Alienation
Community / Hospitality / Maturity and Flourishing
There is a phenomenon slowly spreading over the social landscape that is worth noting. I suspect it’s been around since the moment our first…
Hearing amidst the clamor: 4 reflections
Maturity and Flourishing / Spirituality
On learning to hear A couple of years ago I published an essay on Art House America that I titled, “On Learning to Hear.”…