In my latest contribution to the Forefront blog, I reflect on our need to adopt habits of “long art.” Doing so can reconnect us to a theologically informed stewardship of our world and its beauty, ultimately pointing us toward eternal … Continue reading Forefront: A Legacy of Long Art
I recently had the opportunity to interview my friend Dr. Alastair Roberts, who I met last spring during the Davenant Institute’s Protestant Wisdom Primer. We discuss here his recently published book Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture, … Continue reading Forefront 360: Interview with Dr. Alastair Roberts
An essay that I recently wrote has been published over at Mere Orthodoxy. In it, I argue that localism provides the much needed resources for building strong and compassionate communities, as well as anchoring our cultural and political endeavors to … Continue reading In Defense of Localism
London Snow When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town; Deadening, muffling, stifling its murmurs … Continue reading Poem of the Week: London Snow
The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me; That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, … Continue reading Poem of the Week: The Soldier
Dickinson has the wondrous capacity to produce verse both so short in length, yet timeless in its wisdom. One could read this poem in a few moments, but spend an entire lifetime learning of its truth. Indeed, these lines contain … Continue reading Poem of the Week: Much Madness is divinest Sense
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering … Continue reading Poem of the Week: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
“Come see the north wind’s masonry.” Ralph Waldo Emerson said this of some other place, but it seems that he wrote these lines looking out my own window this morning. I have read this poem many times before, but as … Continue reading Poem of the Week: The Snowstorm
The Coliseum Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries of pomp and power! At length—at length—after so many days Of weary pilgrimage and burning thirst (Thirst for the springs of lore … Continue reading Poem of the Week: The Coliseum
Recent weeks have brought with them some fascinating reflections on the notion of disenchantment. Poe’s “Sonnet—To Science,” a poem I recently shared, laments the inevitable banishment of magic from the natural world at the hands of Science; then there’s this excellent piece … Continue reading Isolation and the Old Spirits
