Sandalstraps' Sanctuary

LeBron James played terribly in the NBA Finals. Which tells us, umm, that LeBron James played terribly in the NBA Finals. But since I keep h...

Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? In his classic The Denial of Death , cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker a...

A brief reflection for a day that is, to me, so holy because it is - unlike the rest of Holy Week - so common. Holy Saturday, for me, crysta...

This is a sermon that I will be preaching this Sunday at Community Church of Wilmette, in Wilmette, IL. It is based on a sermon I preached l...

For some reason (perhaps because I'm reading John D. Caputo's The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion ) ...

Ann W. Astell's Eating Beauty is, as one might guess, not accidentally titled. It is a play on words that works in multiple directions....

I'm thinking about rebooting this blog. It has been sitting in cyberspace, long neglected by its less than loving parent. There's so...

I'm now blogging at a new blog devoted to music and culture, Yes, I Am Cheesy Enough . My first contribution to this emerging group proj...

A friend of mine has been asking an interesting question lately: "What is killing the church?" I'm not entirely sure that I ac...

[ Note: I wrote this bit of absurd randomness as a Note on Facebook - look me up if you Facbook. That's where I waste most of my Intern...