A Writer’s Bad Day

It’s been difficult to process things lately. I am beset with a profound sadness over the brokenness of everything. I am overwhelmed with the impossibility of surviving in this economy. I am befuddled by the ways other people think. I begin to fear that I am the only person who thinks like I do, and […]

On Being a Christ-follower and Practicing Artist in the Indie Age

The paradigm shift in the distribution of art brings with it new conundrums for the artist who follows Christ. We who were raised on Sting and J.R.R. Tolkien are confronted now with five thousand Appleseed Casts—that is, untold numbers of fair-to-middlin artists who are doing what we do, doing it fairly well, who’ve been doing […]

The kingdom; the city

As I move from my early twenties (that time of life when it is all life, all possibility) into my mid-twenties (that time of life when possibilities dry up and you are squeezed and funneled more and more into a point), I find the promise of the kingdom, of true citizenship, taking on a sudden […]