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,…
Expunged from the Garden
Stagnancy; or, Cleaning the Closet of Christianity Perhaps you’ve noticed it in the news or in print media: Earth is changing, or maybe it’s…
Turning: An Interview with Larry Rasmussen
All of the world’s great religions ask us to turn–turn away from harm and wrongdoing, turn towards our neighbor, turn our perspectives around, turn…
The Black Snake
The other day, as I drove through the National Grasslands, the first image of a pristine prairie I saw was a one hundred car…
The Missouri River Dinosaur
The pallid sturgeon is, perhaps, the least sexy fish in existence. Prehistoric, armored, and occupying the muddy recesses of slow flowing rivers, it is…
Prairie
Prairie that place silent as a whisper where wind fingers through wheat and ripples over the rough bark of cottonwood trees. Do not drill,…
Bill McKibben on Faith and the Church
Interviewing someone who has influenced and shaped your own writing is daunting, especially when that someone is Bill McKibben. McKibben, who now spends much…
Staring into the Fiery Furnace
Christians like pretty much the same things best: singing, praising, communion, and complacency. In Wendell Berry’s essay “Christianity and the Survival of Creation,” Berry…
The Lake of Fire
For much of my childhood I avoided the book of Revelation. Its apocalyptic message, fraught with fire and death, frightened me. I could find…