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Old King Coal – on Ministry Matters
What happens to the coal patch when the coal industry leaves? https://www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry/9358/the-decline-of-coal →
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Georgia on his Mind: George Whitefield and the Margins of Empire [from Englewood Review]
This review originally appeared on the Englewood Review of Books. Experiments flourish on the margins. It’s why visionaries and mavericks gather in places far from the watchful eye of social convention and official control. Think Donald Judd making his art and his mark in Marfa in ultra-West Texas. Think Brigham Young and the Mormons building… →
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Alex’s New Essay on Streetlight
Appetite for Destruction – Fixing Roofs in Waverly https://streetlightmag.com/2018/11/11/appetite-for-destruction-fixing-roofs-in-waverly-by-alex-joyner/ →
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God is in the Crowd (& Goliath is in the Wings): A Review of Tal Keinan’s New Book
When you go to the Holy Land and discuss the current realities of Israelis and Palestinians, you’ll often hear about two biblical characters—David and Goliath. Palestinians will point out how they have been consigned to two small patches of their former homeland—Gaza and the West Bank, how Israeli settlements and security encroach on these, and… →
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The Coasts of Anhedonia – Poetry
The land, this land, is not a problem to be solved. It is a matrix, this mother, for health. The great migrations of the day— from Syria, the South, central Africa— are symptoms of a greater dis location. It’s not just about resources and economic opportunity (or lack thereof). These are… →
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How to Get Over the Election – 2018 Edition
We went to the polls. We voted for change or not. We resisted or didn’t. And in the end, we remain divided. One pundit I heard this morning said that the most profound and confounding divide in America is the rural-urban/suburban split. As a site begun after the 2016 elections and devoted to understanding the… →
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The Shame of Rural America: The Heartlands Interview with Robert Wuthnow Concludes, 3 of 3
In the last part of my interview with Princeton sociologist, Robert Wuthnow, we talked about rural churches. In this segment we pull back the lens and look at shame, among other things… You say in the book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America, that part of your effort is to explain to other… →
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What About the Methodists?: Robert Wuthnow talks churches, 2 of 3
In the first part of my interview with Princeton’s Robert Wuthnow, one of America’s premier sociologists, we talked about the current face of the Heartland. Wuthnow’s book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America, talks about the changing dynamics of many rural institutions, including churches. I enlisted him to help me think about churches… →
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Still Kinda In Kansas: Talking Politics with Robert Wuthnow, Part 1 of 3
Robert Wuthnow is that rare academic who still keeps a foot in the heartlands. Wuthnow is a respected Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University but he’s as apt to talk to you about his native Kansas as he is the cultural capitals of DC and New York. I caught up with Wuthnow a few… →
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I Truly, Madly, Deeply Hate ‘Deeply’
I don’t use Heartlands to rant much, right? O yeah, there was that time. But, listen, there’s a new rhetorical bugaboo I need to brood about. I’m deeply concerned about ‘deeply.’ It’s not so much the adverb’s connection to words like ‘grateful’ and phrases like ‘I love you.’ It’s particularly problematic when it worms its… →
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