Skip to content
Heartlands

Heartlands

"To Know the Country Whole"

  • About
  • Books
  • Other Writing
  • Support Heartlands

Tag: sermons

26 December 202026 December 2020Alex Joyner

Finding the Music of the World

“Take away the words to the song and hope will take up humming;” I’m not sure how the Rev. Paul Escamilla wrote those words on his manuscript before delivering them in a sermon some some weeks ago. There’s usually a little poetry in sermons, even if you’re not aiming for that old sermon structure of […]

Continue Reading "Finding the Music of the World"

Pages

  • About
  • Books
  • Other Writing
  • Support Heartlands

Recent Posts

  • Going West With Wiman 9 January 2021
  • “Everything That Seems Empty is Full of Angels”: Remembering the Great Plains 8 January 2021
  • Finding the Music of the World 26 December 2020
  • Dispatch from the Age of Idolatry 24 December 2020
  • Spare Me the Anvil: Tempered Resilience in a Time of Adaptive Change 21 December 2020

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 673 other followers

Categories

  • Books
  • Fiction
  • Guest Blogger
  • Interview
  • Ministry
  • Poetry
  • Uncategorized

Heartlands editor

Alex Joyner

Alex Joyner

editor, Heartlands magazine author United Methodist pastor on Virginia's Eastern Shore

View Full Profile →

Order Alex’s book

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017

What We’re Talking About:

Annie Dillard Arlie Russell Hochschild Best Reads Bible Books Carson McCullers church Civil War Eastern Shore Flannery O'Connor General Conference Great Divide history Israel Jesmyn Ward memoir memory Mississippi Poetry politics Prayer race rural America sexuality small churches small town South Texas theology United Methodist Virginia Virginia Reeves Way Forward William Faulkner writing

Top Posts & Pages

  • In Praise of Bad Writing: David Bentley Hart’s New Testament
    In Praise of Bad Writing: David Bentley Hart’s New Testament
  • Dreams Nursed in Darkness: Tommy Orange’s There, There
    Dreams Nursed in Darkness: Tommy Orange’s There, There
  • The Destabilizing Doors of Exit West: A Review
    The Destabilizing Doors of Exit West: A Review
  • Christian Wiman Has Nothing to Prove, And Yet He Does
    Christian Wiman Has Nothing to Prove, And Yet He Does
  • Teenager Abuses Hand Sanitizer, Finds Self: The Beauty in John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down
    Teenager Abuses Hand Sanitizer, Finds Self: The Beauty in John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down
  • Love and Grit in What Used to Be America: Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland
    Love and Grit in What Used to Be America: Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland
  • Fake Candles at the Tomb: A Holy Land Reflection
    Fake Candles at the Tomb: A Holy Land Reflection

Recent Posts

  • Going West With Wiman
  • “Everything That Seems Empty is Full of Angels”: Remembering the Great Plains
  • Finding the Music of the World
  • Dispatch from the Age of Idolatry
  • Spare Me the Anvil: Tempered Resilience in a Time of Adaptive Change

Recent Comments

Going West With Wima… on Christian Wiman Has Nothing to…
Going West With Wima… on Silence, Poetry & the Salv…
Going West With Wima… on Joy Comes In the Morning: A Re…
Ruth Atterberry on “Everything That Seems E…
“Everything Th… on There is Still a ‘There’ There…

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017

Categories

  • Books
  • Fiction
  • Guest Blogger
  • Interview
  • Ministry
  • Poetry
  • Uncategorized

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 673 other followers

Blog at WordPress.com.