This morning as I sit in the desert of Northern New Mexico, I’m blogging (or preparing to blog) about a story from my recent trip to Germany while I listen to myself on BBC Radio–an interview I recorded earlier in the summer. A weird sense of being in several places at once. You can […]
I don’t usually treat this blog like, well, a blog, but I want to delay our usually scheduled essay to tell you that Jon Dee Graham—who I’ve written about a couple of times here and who is both a genuinely great musician and a genuinely good human being—was recently in a serious car accident on […]
Christians call themselves “people of the book,” and like Jews and Muslims, we have a formative text at the heart of our faith tradition, in our case the Bible. The Bible is foregrounded in the Christian tradition as a devotional text, a tool for worship, even, in some cases, as an idol that rivals the […]
