Podcast: On Art and Faith: Makoto Fujimura
Call & Character, December 15, 2020 The British poet Edward Thomas once wrote an exquisite little poem in which he described a simple, towering plume of smoke rising from a…
The Liberating Arts Winter Roundtable
On the challenges facing the liberal arts tradition, with Jessica Hooten Wilson, Jeff Bilbro, and Noly Toly (TLA, December 14, 2020). https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=bGWjU9yXdUU&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=TheLiberatingArts
Between Pandemic and Protest: The future of the liberal arts in higher education
COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education, presenting a cliff made still taller by a powerful protest movement. Both events have intensified pressures long squeezing the survival of the liberal arts as…
Monuments Can Be Destroyed, but Not Forgotten
Christianity Today Online, September 2020 In the Hebrew Scriptures, stone monuments are earthen witnesses to a sacred covenant. When Jacob contractually maneuvered himself out from under his father-in-law Laban, he…
Sermon: Little Girl, Arise
Morning Prayer at the Chapel of the Resurrection, Valparaiso University https://youtu.be/DASopILFPBk?t=149
Sermon: A Friend Regained
Candlelight Evening Prayer, Valparaiso University, February 9, 2020 John 21:1-19 Good evening. Thank you for having me here at this beautiful Candlelight service. I wasn’t given a specific lectionary text…