Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

How the Light Gets In

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew humbles herself in a search for Marilynne Robinson’s creative authority.

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Anthony D. Baker

As Best as I Can Remember Him

Anthony Baker considers the theology in Rich Mullins’s most searching lyrics, two decades after the musician’s death.

rich mullins
Trevor Logan

The Tree of Life: A Son of Tears

God will make man see things, if it is only against the black background of nonentity. God will make Job see a startling universe if He can only do it by making Job see an idiotic universe. To startle man God becomes for an instant a blasphemer; one might almost say that God becomes for […]

Jon Tschanz, Norman Wirzba

Feeding Bodies and the Theology of Taking Lives: An Interview with Norman Wirzba

According to the Gospel of John, when Jesus first appears after his resurrection he is mistaken for a gardener. He comes to Mary Magdalene, who is weeping at the empty tomb, and she asks him what has been done with Jesus’s body. But perhaps this case of mistaken identity tells us something about the character […]

Daniel Bowman Jr., John Leax

Faithful to the Work: An Interview and Two Poems with John Leax, Part II

Read part one of our interview, plus two more of John Leax’s poems (and audio) here. An elder statesman in art and faith circles, John Leax (Jack to friends) is a poet and essayist of hard-earned, humble wisdom, and as such, he avoids the spotlight. The author of books like Country Labors: Poems for All […]

Daniel Bowman Jr., John Leax

Faithful to the Work: An Interview and Two Poems with John Leax, Part I

An elder statesman in art and faith circles, John Leax (Jack to friends) is a poet and essayist of hard-earned, humble wisdom, and as such, he avoids the spotlight. The author of books like Country Labors: Poems for All Seasons and Out Walking: Reflections on our Place in the Natural World, he would rather be […]