The Blues run backwards: Girard, mimesis, and Doug Burr’s Pale White Dove
Burr’s musical archaeology unearths the bodies buried beneath the floorboards of the American cultural edifice.
Analog Christianity
Convenience is sometimes overrated. It can even obscure what is good, holy, and true.
No one is a no one
There is not a man, woman, or child that we will not declare a no one if it suits our interests, that we will not drive to the brow of the hill, so that we might hurl them off the cliff. But no one is a no one.
O Lord, open thou our lips
I grew up in the Pentecostal Church, which is another way of saying I grew up in a tradition where we go to church to sing. This value for singing and musical expression was ubiquitous. On our way to church, we... Read More...
One needful thing
The first definition of the human creature is "homo adorans": a mortal is first a priest. The Son of Adam or Daughter of Eve stands in the center of the world and unifies it by blessing God.