narrative theology

make something…

So, Why is it that we always think of Pentecost as a glorified church service where everyone consumed a big ‘excellent’ program? One thing that I’m convinced of after growing up in the church and following Jesus into the World, is that we need better metaphors for what we dream of and what we […]


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 […]


Aperture and Wendell Berry’s “Sonata at Payne Hollow”

In Wendell Berry’s “Sonata at Payne Hollow,” Harlan and Anna are deceased lovers speaking to eachother in the present as ghosts. Anna comments to Harlan about the river that he’s “never seen enough of,” he keeps gazing upon it even after generations have come and gone. Harlan replies:
It never does anything twice. It […]