Breathing Things: A Conversation With Artist Taylor O. Thomas
byTaylor O. Thomas lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee where she fills her apartment with large, but intricately layered color-filled paintings. Sometimes the images…
Writing
Why do we hunt Christmas trees?
byWith Christmas around the corner it is disturbing to consider the massive slaughter that has been underway. Even more disturbing? Many of us indulge in…
On Passing Helloes and Oak Trees
byThe 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…
The Fellowship of the Golden Sands
byThe name ‘Au Sable’ means ‘golden sand,’ and of itself connotes little more than a fuzzy French connection. It appears wherever French explorers or…
Memories of a Rainy Day in Camp
byOr, The Day We Sang the Songs Rain drums a steady rhythm on my tent fly. Just a gentle shower by backcountry standards, but…
The King’s Chambers Are Getting Empty
byAmphibians 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.
Tending the Vine at Church of the Woods
byFrom 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.
The Prophet Elijah’s Word to the Otherwise
bySay the word ‘Prophet’ and a certain image might come to mind. A man in a robe with a long scraggly beard. He looks crazy. He looks underfed. He looks irritated with everyone. He shakes his finger. He points. He shouts. He condemns. He demands repentance.
Remembering Tom Barnes
by[openquote]I find it hard not to believe in a God who would make such a wonderful place for us to enjoy, because you know,…
Tea is Powerful: An Interview with Rev. Becca Stevens
byInterwoven moments of joy, brazenness, leadership, and humility Nashville is filled with the songs of budding musicians floating through the air, the neon lights…