S P R A W L
For your reading pleasure, my review of S P R A W L by Danielle Dutton is now available on Englewood Review of Books. An excerpt: Like the much-maligned sprawl of the suburbs, the novel incarnates the sprawl…
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Barbies at Communion
My review of Marcus Goodyear’s book of poetry Barbies at Communion is published in the most recent edition of the Englewood Review of Books. An excerpt: What strikes the reader most about Marcus Goodyear’s poetry is the immediate…
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Review: New Covenant Bound
My review of T. Crunk’s book New Covenant Bound was published in The Englewood Review of Books. An excerpt: T. Crunk’s latest work is a mixture of poetry and prose that tells the epic story of a family adversely affected…
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If you are looking for a publication that takes seriously the task of culture making as a religious expression of action and critique, there is no better than Englewood Review of Books. Their quarterly print…
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I Don’t Like Racists, But…
I don’t claim to know much about race relations. Even if I did, I probably wouldn’t want to be taken too seriously. So, as much as I’d like to make comments on the Trayvon Martin…
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Archive August
I am going to take some time this month to step away from writing and chart out a course of what I want to write about this coming fall. I will still have original prayers…
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From the Archives: The Case for Adult Baptism
To continue the conversation around baptism I started off with the story of my baptismal journey, I wanted to present the case for adult baptism first, followed by the case for infant baptism. Adult baptism is…
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Ancient-Future Worship
I have been deeply influenced by Robert Webber’s thought as it trickled into my own thought through third parties and articles concerning Robert Webber and the Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future. Yet I had never…
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Is Addiction a Form of Worship?
There is a scene in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods when a TV begins to talk to the main character, Shadow. The TV says that it is one of the new gods, not like Odin or those other…
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Always Loving, Always Caring, Always Hoping
Poverty is an after thought to people when times are good. We feel that if we are doing well, everyone else must be doing well, too, and if they aren’t, well, they are doing something…