OK, so it is a little late to be coming out with my top music picks for 2010. Four weeks ago, audiophiles everywhere were inundated with a myriad of “best of” lists. I came to a saturation point as I was perusing some of these a few weeks ago, and decided to …
The poems of Jeanne Murry Walker are lucid and alluring. And somehow, they often remind me of a good punk song. Here is a favorite selection from her latest compilation. Sample more poems from New Tracks, Night Falling using the preview feature over at Google books. You can find that …
Abstract Cathedral is proud to host a book except from this month’s guest contributor: Greg Richards is a writer and College Minister who lives in San Antonio, TX with his wife and four children. This is an except from his forthcoming book tentatively titled “Napkins: Interruptions towards Christian Identity” My …
I just watched the new Cohen Brothers film True Grit…and loved it. A few weeks back I caught Burn After Reading and find the juxtaposition between these two films most interesting. In Burn After Reading we find the universe a random assortment of cause and effect. The result is a not particularly meaningful existence. Not particularly …
Happy MLK day! Many thanks to David Fitch of Reclaiming the Mission for pointing us to this sermon given by MLK on January 1, 1956. The PDF below is an outline of the sermon. A short and worthwhile read that reflects the theological heart of Martin Luther King Jr. I would be grateful …
THE MAGI by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms …
Anyone who has ever talked with me about my love of quality fiction has probably heard me mention Marilynne Robinson. She is the author of one of the most contemplative novels of the last two centuries, Gilead, and continues to posture her writing in such a way that her readers understand that …