I grew up playing and enjoying hockey, football, basketball, and baseball, but I was fascinated by and absorbed with baseball.  I studied how to throw different pitches, read all I could on the history of the game and its many colorful characters, poured over strategies and the rules of the game, and spent countless hours […]

Jill Lepore’s brilliant book, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History (Princeton University Press, 2010), sparked some fascinating dinner table conversations over the last few months on the current political landscape in America, manipulative public rhetoric, naked grabs for power, the perils of unbound ambition, and how […]

When I wrote The Drama of Ephesians, I employed the notions of narrative and drama to describe the shape of the gospel and I used the concept of improvisation to talk about community embodiment of Christian identity.  Improvisation is so wonderfully rich and ought to be exploited more fully in speaking of ecclesial practice. Improvisation […]