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The Song of Knives and Forks
My grandmother passed away just over a year ago. Time has a strange hold on our perceptions, so it feels both very long ago, and just yesterday. She and I shared a birthday, and every year that our schedules aligned we would celebrate together. She would always bake me a German Chocolate Cake, and finally […]
Humility for the New Year
I took an accidental leave of absence from writing. Well, technically from blogging I suppose, I was still writing occasionally, in stunted starts and stops. At any rate, here’s a gentle return, which I hope will be one of many more to share in the coming year. As always, the few of you who have […]
Stop Singing “The Song of Myself”
I celebrate myself, and sing myself. -Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass If you’ve ever read Whitman you’ve likely read Part One of Leaves of Grass: Song of Myself, in which he stacks stanza upon stanza of nonsensical, selfish grandiosity. It’s tiring to read, and the worst assignment of any American Lit class. It’s also the […]
Body Image to the Glory of God
A man’s body is no mere adornment, or external convenience; it belongs to his very nature as man. -Augustine We are soul and body, fellow humans. Where does that leave us in a world that clings to youth and narrowly defined beauty, flirts with diet and exercise fads, and insists on ignorance of the soul? […]
Love is Love?
Every year I spend the month of February thinking about love. It began as a rebellion based on my loathing of Valentine’s Day, but it has matured into a practice that has helped reframe my thinking, convicted me of my skewed ideas about love, and ultimately given me a renewed affection for God. The word […]
Oceans Never Fill 