New Wine, New Wineskins

Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of the Lenten season leading up to Easter.  I have been looking for a little inspiration/instruction to aid me in my participation of the Lenten season.  Thankfully,I came across a little article in a devotional anthology, “Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter.”  It provided me with the “entry [...]

In the long tradition of Christians spiritualizing poems about marriage, I offer “The Wild Rose” by Wendell Berry:
Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,
suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was [...]

When the Koinonia Community, an interracial communal farm in Georgia, found themselves the target of legal persecution in the 1950’s, the founder Clarence Jordan asked his brother Robert to represent them, to which he replied (taken from Stanley Hauerwas’ commentary on Matthew):
“Clarence, I can’t do that.  You know my political aspirations.  Why, if I represented [...]

Further to my interview with Tom Krattenmaker (to appear in Cultural Encounters Volume 6, Number 1), we were both interviewed for this article. My expanded thoughts on the intersection of religion and sports – and particularly with regard the current interest in the Tim Tebow/Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad – appear below.
I want [...]