Seeing Advent as an Invasion (while listening to Sufjan Stevens)

Advent is an Invasion. Everything is beautiful this Christmas season. We even have snow on the ground in my neighborhood which is unusual this early in the year, but it really sells the Christmas lights lining the street and makes the holiday feel much closer. I drove home yesterday listening to the Sufjan Stevens Christmas […]

Intersections, Faith, and the Safety of Lions

There are special moments when my day job (teaching) and my evening work (writing) make an inadvertent intersect and coalesce into a good conversation. I have mentioned occasionally here that I am writing a book about the Beatitudes and subsequently spending a good amount of time living in those words, imagining Jesus, and the characters […]