Our church newsletter highlighted this wonderful poem, which I’d never read before. As fall’s chill begins to crackle here in Michigan, the warmth in this poem was palpable for me, as is the sense of aged gratitude, delayed but now granted: Those Winter Sundays BY ROBERT HAYDEN Sundays too my father got up earlyand put…
The Other Journal has just posted my interview with James Davison Hunter about his important new book, To Change the World. It was conducted as an e-interview, so it’s not quite as chatty as a live conversation, but I think it invites Hunter to clarify some key points, and articulate some new ones. This is…
My home institution has posted a little Q & A about my two new books, Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy and Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences, co-edited with Amos Yong. Check it out in order to see what has to be college’s dorkiest file photo of me…
The Eerdmans Bookstore here in Grand Rapids will be hosting an evening event to celebrate the publication of Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy: “On the Very Idea of a Pentecostal Philosophy” 7:00pm, Eerdmans Bookstore, 2140 Oak Industrial Drive NE, Grand Rapids, MI Q &A, refreshments and book signing to follow. Hope to…
Well, I’ve taken the plunge: I’m on Facebook. While my publisher has been encouraging me to do this for a while, what pushed me over the edge was closer to home: our oldest son has gone to college, and the low-grade mourning I’ve suffered in his absence was just enough to cloud my faculties and…
The Other Journal has just published my longish review essay, “How (Not) to Change the World,” on James Davison Hunter’s important new book, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. In a few days they’ll follow up by publishing an interview I conducted with Hunter about…