James Vanden Bosch, professor of English at Calvin College is substituting today for Jennifer Holberg. Thanks, Jim! “We had fed the heart on fantasies, The
“Theologians are poets who cannot write poetry.” I believe it was Stanley Hauerwas I once heard say this. It feeds my deep insecurities. I certainly
I’m struggling to find words today. I’m tempted to just re-post my piece “Herod’s Long Shadow” from a year ago. And I’m tempted to take back
I would like to be writing a review of the new movie The Hobbit, but I haven’t seen it yet. (My daughter went to a
I’m not unaccustomed to traveling, but yesterday, like a thousand times before, I came up on a huge strip of truck tire, something peeled from
Just to be clear, beer and gasoline is not what this post is about, although they do make an appearance in what I’d like to
That’s the title that the rising spoken word artist, Suli Breaks, gave his piece of art. It has gone viral since he posted it on
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever
To prepare to write about the looming fiscal cliff I read long essays in The Atlantic, The New Yorker and Time. After doing that, I
