Excerpt from an amazing book: _The Mating Season_

I started reading _The Mating Season_ by Alex Brunkhorst, this evening on the train. I’m almost finished, and I love it– it’s an amazing love story, with strange and lovely details about insects and small “creatures,” and a hidden architectural backstory.  But it feels dreamy, with cabochons of witty detail that take me by surprise.
This [...]

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Underselling one’s self

Last year, I co-founded a new academic journal; it has an online presence, as well as a “non peer reviewed” online section, with additional articles.  It’s done well; we did a good job fund-raising, hiring a staff, and collecting a board.  When I presented at a conference in the field last month, many people had [...]

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What we made in Sunday School today

We’ve been talking for the past month or so about the Holy Spirit, and about ways we have to try to capture in language and image the idea of it.  Flames, wind, breath, music, doves.  We talked about things we cannot see, but can feel, or know to be real.  
And since before Easter (since [...]

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Lewis, Felicity, and Perpetua

Yesterday, while working on our save-the-date cards for our wedding, we were looking through favorite quotes.  I came across this one from C.S. Lewis; I have loved it for many years.
 
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters to large for some [...]

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What’s going on in this picture?

 
I found this photograph a few days ago on Jezebel.  I’ve been thinking about it lately, and looking at it, and admiring the beauty, the light, and the composition.  And I can’t ignore the fact that this just happened a few days ago, and the people in it are living, and living through whatever comes [...]

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