Snowmelt to Roots
November of last year, with autumn awakening in me again the desire to write, I set myself the task of fifteen songs and fifty poems. Any...
top of page
- Jun 8
Do Not Despair
I’m guessing that many of you may feel like I do a lot these days when you look at the news—both angry yet impotent to do much of...
- Apr 3
Video: The Goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living
Leslie Bustard is one of those people who is just easy to love. That much became evident when the idea for this video project was...
- Dec 19, 2022
Meditating on the Coming of Christ: A Trilogy of Advent Tanka Poems
Tanka is a cousin to the popular poetic form of the haiku. The word tanka translates to short song. Originating in medieval Japan, it is...
- Nov 2, 2022
Hearing Scripture Anew, In a Chorus of Poetic Voices
Poetry helps us see things in a new light. Whether the subject of a poem is a thing, an experience, an emotion, or something else, the...
- Oct 10, 2022
The Habit of Hope
On most weekend afternoons the year I turned seven, you could find me in my room pacing the purple shag rug while a library record spun...
- Sep 28, 2022
She Slays in Mysterious Ways
The Faerie Queene is an epic poem written by Edmund Spenser in the late 1500s. This pioneering work of world-building inspired writers...
- Aug 15, 2022
Piers Plowman and the Possibilities of Poetry
During this past summer season I had the joy of taking an aimless stroll through St Albans, in Hertfordshire, England. History was...
- Jun 10, 2022
Call It Good: Propaganda, Carolyn Arends, Andrew Peterson, & Pete Peterson
New to the Rabbit Room Podcast Network is Call It Good: Conversations on Creative Confidence. Hosted by Matt Conner (host of The...
- Jun 5, 2022
An Interview with Hannah Hubin
Have you listened to All the Wrecked Light yet? It’s a gorgeous, collaborative album of music, a lyrical exposition of Psalm 90, and a...
- May 16, 2022
Branching Out: Galahad and the Tree of Tales
Tolkien has rightly described the world of story, and especially the mysterious world of fairy tale, myth and legend, as being like a...
- Mar 24, 2022
A Liturgy for Gardening
In anticipation of the full arrival of spring, here’s a liturgy from Every Moment Holy, Vol. 1 for those of us who are contemplating what...
- Mar 2, 2022
Ash Wednesday: An Exhortation Making Space to Speak of Dying
I n the season of Lent, we devote special attention to the ache of incompletion, suffering, and trial. Lent begins with the dust of...
- Jan 11, 2022
On Poetry, Programming, Chaos, and Cosmos
A few years ago at Hutchmoot, Pete Peterson said something that has been enriching the leaf-mould of my mind ever since. Quoting Walt...
- Nov 23, 2021
How to Read Seamus Heaney (Part 2)
In this short series of posts, I am hoping to encourage the reading of poetry for all it’s worth—to foster confidence in those who love...
- Oct 25, 2021
Collaboration & Community in All the Wrecked Light
A language scholar told me this summer that, in the Hebrew culture, the imagined direction of man in time was reversed. While we in the...
- Oct 15, 2021
It’s Not a Poem Until You Discover Something: An Interview with Scott Cairns
When I think of the most impactful conversations I have had, the one hour I spent talking about art and poetry with poet and professor...
- Oct 14, 2021
How to Read Seamus Heaney (Part 1)
When it comes to talking about poetry, there is often an invisible line that can prove difficult to navigate. On the one hand, in any...
- May 25, 2021
A Liturgy for the Planting of Flowers
In celebration of summertime, here’s a liturgy from Every Moment Holy, Vol. 1 about planting flowers and glimpsing the beauty of creation...
- Mar 29, 2021
A Liturgy in Praise of Christ Who Conquered Death
As we enter into Holy Week, we offer you this liturgy from Every Moment Holy, Volume II to be read and relished on Easter Sunday. The...
bottom of page