Every once in a while I become obsessed, infected with a CD. The most recent is one that my son, Coleson, put me onto: “Sigh No More” from Mumford & Sons, a West London band whose melancholic melodies just bore down into my soul (and my own melancholy). You can listen to a healthy dose…
When I was out in Seattle last fall for the “Faith, Film, and Justice” conference, I sat down for an interview with Tom Ryan, host of The Other Journal Podcast, a new venture from our friends over at TOJ. They’ve launched this venture with sources from the conference and, in addition to posting the audio…
Easter Sunday was a beautiful spring day here in Grand Rapids, so in the spirit of sabbath-keeping we actually set about laboring in our gardens. Such work is restorative in many ways: it’s a labor of stewardship, but it’s also get-your-hands-dirty work that is a welcome change from the cerebral labor of my week. Sometimes…
[Yes, it’s been a while since a post here at Fors Clavigera–not that I think anyone has missed it. I observed a blog fast for Lent, and have since been swamped with my real job. It was good for me to have been away from it, but hope to get back to my usual irregularity.]…
The Woodward Theological Society is a new ecumenical venture that, according to their new website, seeks to foster a culture of theological reflection that is academically rigorous and rooted in the life of the Church in Metro Detroit. WTS seeks to provide opportunities for the church and the academy to interact and exchange ideas; all…
I spent the past weekend in Guelph, Ontario–a university town near my old stomping grounds in southern Ontario. It’d been years since I’d been there, and in coming back I was struck by what I’d never noticed before (the blindness of familiarity): the city is a veritable paean to Edinburgh and all things Scottish–street names,…