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#9 – By the Word Worked by Fleming Rutledge – 2025 Best Reads
The 2025 Top 10 continues with one of my favorite Virginians – Fleming Rutledge. →
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Fleming Rutledge would like a word…from God
For all the space it takes up in our worship services, the sermon as an object of critical study has suffered from criminal neglect. Enter Fleming Rutledge. →
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Father’s Day in Bujumbura
My latest post is up on the Streetlight Magazine blog. A reflection on connection and hope in Burundi. Check it out! →
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#10 – Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson – 2024 Best Reads
We have been reading and, as we’ve done since 2017, we’re ready to spill some tea on the 2024 reading campaign. →
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Esau McCaulley’s Unexpected Journey
You come out of this memoir feeling McCaulley’s hard-won wisdom, openness, and faith. His difficult, often-absent, father, his resilient mother, his racially-intolerant in-laws, and his big, loving Alabama family all find their place in McCaulley’s heart. →
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The Midnight Diner & The United Methodist Church
We took the train by the river to see what prophets see →
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Marilynne Robinson Goes Back to the Beginning
Robinson, the storyteller who created such vivid, fleshed-out characters in her Gilead series, turns a practiced eye to the characters of Genesis, finding some surprising stand-outs. Cain, for instance, creates real issues for a God who has established the utter sacredness of life. Given that the earth’s first family includes a murderer, how will God… →
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Fleming Rutledge Upends Another Season
Alongside Dry January, a preacher might offer a sermon series on ‘6 Ways to Up Your Spiritual Game in 2024.’ I don’t even know what that means, but it sounds…productive. Inconveniently for such well-intentioned attempts to enter the marketplace of resolutions, the calendar of the Christian year gives us Epiphany, an obscure season that puts… →
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Mr. Zahnd’s Wild Ride to the Cross
Zahnd, a longtime Missouri pastor of Word of Life Church, drinks deeply from the culture around him as well as from the resources of the Christian tradition. And he finds God everywhere. →
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Love in a Small Cell: Claire Gilbert Gives Voice to Julian of Norwich
Julian’s faith is rich and deep, never skirting past the graveyards of this world, but opening up the nature of a loving God. →
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