Archive for August, 2008

no I have not left presbyterianism

a quick update… I was excited to have some conversations the past few months with AJC Religion editor, Chris Quinn.  He’s great. He reported on Brian McLaren’s particpation in the Mainline Emergent/s event, Jan 2007 and this summer’s Jesus For President and Church Basement Roadshow.  Today he wrote a nice short piece about Phyllis Tickle [...]


love and silence

I’ve subscribed to Image journal for several years and don’t always get to read the whole thing. But I love the work of Image’s chief editor, Gregory Wolfe. So I recently picked up the book, Intruding Upon the Timeless, with selections of his contributions to the journal between its beginning in 89 until 2003. So [...]


songs to know

I’m going to start posting about songs and albums and songwriters that I love. The first is a CD that Kelley has been chomping at the bit for us to get for months now: Raising Sand: a duet album of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss produced by T-Bone Burnett In a very short review: the [...]