Dear Praise Band, I so appreciate your willingness and desire to offer up your gifts to God in worship. I appreciate your devotion and celebrate your faithfulness–schlepping to church early, Sunday after Sunday, making time for practice mid-week, learning and writing new songs, and so much more. Like those skilled artists and artisans that God…
Well, I just dropped this off at the offices of Baker Publishing Group: the manuscript for the sequel to Desiring the Kingdom. My working title (we’ll see if it survives) is Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works. Now I’m coming up for air. The past two months have been a blur. Deanna has passed along…
I’m honored to announce that I’ll be delivering the 2012 New College Lectures at the University of New South Wales in Sydney this coming May. The gracious invitation to give the lectures immediately brought to mind Stanley Hauerwas’ powerful little book, After Christendom, as I remembered that it had begun its life as the New…
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.