Reason • Faith in Christ • Fiction • The Embodied Life
A life examined. A life embodied.
Essays on reality, theology, culture and the ordinary disciplines of living beautifully in the world God made.
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The Best Examples Only: Johnson’s Neoclassical Case for Virtue in Realistic Fiction
Dr. Samuel Johnson’s essay “On Fiction” offers a refreshing commentary on the value of realistic fiction and ties it firmly to virtue, which he calls “the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness” (Johnson 3). Johnson makes writing a matter of ethics. He opposes writers who “mingle good and bad qualities,”… Continue reading
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Sonnet on The Aseity of Christ
Closed Form: Stanza ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, Final Couplet Continue reading
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Hollow Season
Grief is a guest that stays too long, it sleeps beneath the ribcage, folded quietly like a letter you forgot you wrote. Not gone, just waiting. The body remembers what the mind tries to silence. Holidays come with their gold and noise, but you see the empty chairs, the names not spoken, the faces missing… Continue reading
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Juice the Garden
An excerpt from the forthcoming book The Reasonable Body: A Christian Guide to Juicing, on creation, the nature of the body, and thirty years of juicing. Continue reading
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The Embodied Life
Hair, juicing, fermentation, health, beauty, and the practical art of caring for the life we have been given.
“The earth produces what the body requires; the body receives what the earth provides; and the whole system functions as a unified expression of the wisdom of the One in Whom all things hold together.”
Kate Grace, The Reasonable Body: A Christian Guide to Juicing