Here is a copy of the address that Nancy gave to a graduating class of eleven girls at Trinitas in Pensacola. The folks there are just wonderful, with hospitality to match.
No Particular Axe to Grind
In the introduction to Calvin and the Anabaptist Radicals, William Balke says two important things — important, that is, to the point I would like to make here. The first is that the name anabaptist results in a classic example of misdirection. “The name ‘Anabaptist,’ or ‘rebaptizer,’ picks out what actually was only an incidental …
Hoop Skirts and Jazz
I am clearly on an authenticity jag, and so I must crave your pardon. Here I go some more. Nancy and I just got back from a brief road trip with some friends, in the course of which we spent some time in New Orleans and some of its environs. Two of the (really cool) …
Sacrifices, Burnt Offerings, and a Major Cash Gift
“Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your …
Foxy News
A little while ago I submitted an article to the “On Faith” feature over at the Washington Post, and they ran it today. It is entitled Foxy News, and you can read it here.
Fake is not Real
The lust that our culture has for authenticity is so deep, and so unthinking, that it is the driving cause of our widespread acceptance of, and indeed insistence upon, sham authenticity. From factory-ripped jeans to locally-grown apples, and from them apples to politicians in photos with sleeves rolled up and jacket thrown carelessly over the …
Like Raccoons in the Garbage
So this is to follow up on the previous post. Working together is harder than it appears. One of the first things to distinguish is someone who wants to go the same place you do, but has a different view about how best to do it, from someone who wants to go somewhere completely different, …
What Flies in our Own Circles
As one who has been an erstwhile victim of heresy hunts, I am naturally wary of doing unto others as has been done unto me, sometimes twice. At the same time, there are strange doings afoot in the church, and the Bible does talk about taking the situation in hand when situations need to be …
A Poem from over the Pond
John Fuller’s Collected Poems were published in 1996, and his Stones and Fires won the Forward Prize in 1997. His latest collection, Pebble & I, released Spring 2010 from Chatto and Windus. He was Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2002. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society …
A Really Funny Place
One of the things that mystifies and amuses me by turns is the tendency of contemporary Christians to believe that they are achieving a rare authenticity of soul, that they are presenting a prophetic countercultural vision to a watching world, that they are living out a genuine alternative lifestyle in line with the radical demands …