Late last Saturday night, holed up in a hotel room in Knoxville, working on the final edits for my new book (Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works), providence dealt me a little grace: Wilco was playing on PBS’ “Austin City Limits.” While Wilco is a huge part of my music library, I’ve never seen them…
On the lighter side, in lieu of my blog silence: Jonathan Lofft, one of the students I met last summer at Trinity, pointed me to this fun little ditty from Phil Ochs. It’s the sort of thing that will make both George-Grantish-curmudgeons and sophomore revolutionaries chortle, but neither will be quite sure whether Ochs is…
In light of Romney’s decisive win in the Florida primary, over at The Twelve blog I’ve revisited and recontextualized a post from the last Republican nomination contest. Read more there.
It is an absolute honor and delight for me to have been recently appointed as Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, University of Toronto (and not just because Trinity is the fabled inspiration for The College of St. John & the Holy Ghost in Robertson Davies’ novel, Rebel Angels!). My first…
Is this what it’s come to? Smart, creative adults needs to pay for software to save themselves from distraction by the internet? Apparently. Pico Iyer’s essay, “The Joy of Quiet,” in last Sunday’s Times mentioned software called “Freedom.” The website bills the software thus: Freedom is a simple productivity application that locks you away from…
Because of her commercial success, some indie music snobs might miss the fact that Adele is one of the great female crooners of a generation. We bought my daughter a copy of her live performance at Royal Albert Hall for Christmas, but I think it’s been in the CD player in my car since December…