The Intersection of Faith and Culture
My mother-in law wears a bikini. She is 70-years-old and decades of gravity have done their work. But she wears a bikini nonetheless, with a devil-may-care nonchalance to what others her age are more inclined to cover in sarongs, ruffles and cruise-wear. She’s my hero. Her OK-ness with her body […]
OK, srsly. When is Pope Francis going to get his celebrity-status foreshortened nickname? A false intimacy with the Catholic Church’s quiet storm feels a lot more warm and life-affirming to my insides than with, say, RPatz or Brangelina. If only his name lent itself more easily to hyphenated monikers. Po-Fran […]
Say what you will about broadband speed. The Internets still lag woefully behind when it comes to viral videos. Take this one that just hit it big, more than two years after the events in it took place. If you’re a cryer, get some Kleenex. If (like me) you’re a […]
Mother Teresa wasn’t one for pedicures. In fact, her feet were so gnarled and hard-skinned they looked more like the roots belonging to a knobby old tree than the feet of a saintly, beautiful woman. In his book The Irresistible Revolution, activist Shane Claiborne writes when he served alongside her […]
So I’ve been teaching a high school film class, flying by the seat of my pedagogical pants while replacing the regular teacher until after Christmas break. Judging by his posters, his curriculum has focused on the Seth Rogen canon and the Predator series, although these students have yet to demonstrate […]
Sitting in the car with Dad, listening to the good old classics of the ’70s, like Alice Cooper’s “School’s out,” or The Kinks’ “Lola.” Good times. Phil Keaggy was on his way to becoming one of these rock legends; in fact, his band Glass Harp opened for many of the […]