Forget Shorter Showers
Though first published in 2009, “Forget Shorter Showers” is perhaps even more relevant today, as we enter the sixth year of drought in California,…
Read More1.4 Noise and Silence
Contemplation stands condemned
Contemplative obedience and abandonment to the will of God can never mean a cultivated indifference to the natural values implanted by Him in human…
Read More
Vintage Aerial
Vintage Aerial is a huge, searchable database of old aerial photographs. In the project’s own words: Our collection of over 25 million photographs spans the…
Read MoreSilence is revelatory
A practice of silence can help you to know yourself, others, and God better. How does that happen? One of the most common reasons…
Read More
Christian meditation?
A friend of Topology and *culture is not optional sent over a link to an essay by Christopher Harding for Aeon Magazine called “Silent…
Read MoreThis wonderful, terrible world
I hope whatever senses remain in the years I have left are always attuned to both the gifts and the sufferings of this wonderful,…
Read More
Wendell Berry: Dismemberment
For those always eager for fresh words from the prophet, The Threepenny Review recently published a new short story by Wendell Berry, and it…
Read MoreMoss is alive
In the heated idleness of youth we were all rather inclined to quarrel with the implication of that proverb which says that a rolling…
Read More
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
Over several centuries, the assumed right of Christian nations to claim ownership of any territory they “discovered” and displace the people who called that…
Read MoreWithout a sound
Why should I have been surprised? Hunters walk the forest without a sound. The hunter, strapped to his rifle, the fox on his feet…
Read More