Venturing Our Selves
Comment, Summer 2022 It seems to me that we need strong language to account for friendship’s fragile yet sacred value. Friendship is the sort of love that, on the very…
Podcast: On Anti-Racism: Ekemini Uwan
Call & Character, season 2 | episode 5, April 5, 2021
Consoling the Heart
Fare Forward, Issue 11 It may sound like I’m trying to smuggle classical conceptions of rationality into contemporary notions of emotional awareness: Brené Brown cloaked under Aristotelian virtue ethics or…
The Problem with À La Carte Politics
Christianity Today, March 2021 A few months before the 1996 election, a stack of voting guides showed up at my nondenominational church in suburban Chicago. The guides contained candidates’ headshots…
Podcast: On Racism and the American Church: Jemar Tisby
Call & Character, season 2 | episode 1, January 14, 2021 On January 6, white nationalists stormed the US Capitol—many of them carrying banners with phrases like “Jesus Saves” and…
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