The Wittenberg Door

Attending to Plants, People, and Place

My wife would say you either are paying attention or you aren’t

In Search of Solace

Death often challenges our view of the physical and invisible worlds.

Time Keeps on Slippin’

God invites us to experience life in a timeless eternity. Real life.

Lessons from the Eastern Oyster

So live like the oyster, eat an oyster, and remember to recycle your shell for the benefit of future generations of man and mollusk alike.

Grief in the White House

Parental bereavement is as profound as the lifelong changes that accompany it

Virgil and the Christian Imagination

love is the most powerful force in the world.

The Biblical Case for Conservation

The Bible tells us there is life within the Kingdom—life for us and life for what is around us.

Facing a New Year of Grief

Grief is not a process to work through, a disorder to heal, a condition to treat, or an illness to cure.

“The Sensation of Seeing”: How T.S. Eliot Defamiliarizes the Christmas Story

That which we most value is often that which most frequently slips into dull repetition.

Where Can Wisdom Be Found? -Gambling Pigeons, the Quest for Wisdom,...

Poetry must be experienced, and the experience of poetry is itself a means of searching, a kind of hunting, for wisdom.