Emily Dickinson
Accidental Theology and the Absence of Place
My own persistent existential question is: “How does one love God?”
Finding What We Already Have
Emily Dickinson on the destiny we do not choose.
Caught Between Two Worlds
The one we all are given, and the one we all try to make.
Between Death and Life
March is the Month of Expectation.
Life, and Its Absence
A Lenten Reflection on Emily Dickinson
Consider the Bees of the Air
Drunk on nectar until we die and life goes onto the next.
What Is Seen
There are moments when the profane cannot avoid, let alone hide, the universal.
The Rock Bottom Fallacy
There Will Always Be Worse Deaths Than You Expected.
Wind (and God)
“A Rapid — Footless Guest — / To Offer Whom a Chair / Were as Impossible as Hand / A Sofa to the Air —”
The Post-Christmas Blues and W. H. Auden’s Christmas Oratorio
God Will Cheat No One, not Even the World of Its Triumph
Another Week Ends: Canceling Christmas, Acceptance Parenting, Emily Dickinson, the Church in 2020, Law and Gospel, and Myside Bias
1. Will COVID cancel Christmas this year? I certainly hope not, but that’s what Giles […]
A Splendid Failure: A Preacher’s Guide to the Pulpit
Sermon after Sermon, the Message is this: Jesus Died for You








