An Illiterate Librarian Plays Tag

Well, I have been tagged by Heather over at Street Acrobatics, in a game which will illustrate just how much of an illterate librarian/almost-english-major I actually am.
Here we go. If you are tagged at the end, please join the chain and play along, if you like that is:
1. One book that changed your life:
*The Sacred [...]

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A Difficult Article to Publish

Dear readers,
The current issue of Catapult is entitled “Addicts Anonymous.” You may wonder then why my article appears along with my name. It does so because I feel called to be a writer who reflects on life in ways that will foster deep, personal engagement with the Christian faith. And I do not feel I [...]

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More Poems from Lewis

It is 3 in the morning and I cannot sleep. Having been kept home yesterday with a cough, it is doing its best to make my night miserable as well. Still, I have a big mug of herbal tea with honey and lime, and that is not all bad. I just got done watching the [...]

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Cornerstone Art

Miscellaneous
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Great Divorce Series
(You gotta read the book–it’s fantastic–then come back and view these again.)
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Kid’s Art
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Folks
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Close-up and Sub-creation
This is a detail of the Chagall-like painting of Lewis’ woman in heaven who is accompanied by all the animals to which she was kind to on earth. Note [...]

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The Strong Hand of Love-The Music of Mark Heard.

In the mid-1990’s my brother Virgil and I got into an artist named Mark Heard. His story is somewhat sad in that he was an incredibly gifted, complex, and subtle artist working in the CCM industry, which at the time had little room for either complexity or subtlety. He passed away after a series of [...]

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500,000 Embryos and the Potential Tyrant of the Family

While looking for a picture to supplement my previous post, I found this amazing article. It is incredibly even handed in describing the crisis of the high number of frozen embryos and is clear about its implications. And Mother Jones is the opposite of conservative. One of its most amazing features, though, is its hightlighting [...]

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400,000 Frozen Embryos

This morning on the way into work listening to NPR, they were predicting that the Senate would pass a bill expanding stem cell research, as indeed it has. I have begun to part company with President Bush on several of his policies, however, I am very pleased that he has promised to veto this bill. [...]

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A Reflection/Review of Cornerstone 2006 and a Journey Poem-Two in Catapult

Well, I have been quiet for a while re: writing in Catapult, but here are a couple pieces.
One is a series of poems I wrote in a poetery class, in, oh, something like 1995 inspired by a trip I took to Pakistan in 1992.
The other is a piece I wrote on Thursday about going to [...]

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After Prayers, Lie Cold

I did like my line from the previous post, “I-have-just-had-my-soul-cleansed-and-the-sunshine-is-pouring-in,” which describes the positive result of either repentance or having brokeness healed. A similar set of lines I like even better come from a C.S. Lewis poem:
And be alone, hush’d mortal, in the sacred night,
-A meadow whipt flat with the rain, a cup
Emptied and clean, [...]

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House Church Makes Me Happy, Yes, Silly Even

Of course, this statement is not uniformly so, as sometimes my glumness can overcome the best efforts of fellowship and food, both actual and spiritual. But more often than not, even if I come with a heavy heart, I leave with a lighter one. I find this especially to be true of actual church on [...]

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