The Theos Project

Generosity and giving can result in a certain power over others. Such was the gist of Jean Vanier’s comments in his interview with Krist Tip...

Of late, my faith, my pilgrimage, seems to have been taking me in the general direction of creativity and imagination. I am starting to awak...

Okay, here's a quickie....uhm....I mean, a quick post. I came across a blog by Julie Clawson, Why N.T. Wright is Wrong about Social Medi...

My review of A Thousand Splendid Suns is available for your reading pleasure. We have had good discussion ensue, with insightful commentary...

Tamie and I teach a creative writing class at the county jail every Wednesday afternoon. In the last two classes, we discussed clichés, vag...

A.H. Almaas is a spiritual teacher who merges modern depth psychology with spirituality. In order to familiarize myself with Almaas, I was r...

There's a nifty book published in 1997 called Postmodern God (edited by Graham Ward). It is an anthology of essays that discuss the con...

"The soil is the one indestructible, immutable asset that the nation possesses," the Federal Bureau of Soils proclaimed as the gra...

He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free... For those of you who do not know, Tamie ...

In 2009 I.... Started (and stuck with!) a routine of 50 pushups a day in June. Launched my Human Narrative Project: to read and review a lis...

“every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief” A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel that is at once both brutal and...

I will be posting my next novel review of A Thousand Splendid Suns on January 1st at 12:01 am. (This novel, I must say, is both brutal and ...