Think Spring: A Small Tribute to the Season

If you were to pay tribute to one facet of spring, what would it be? I’ve lived for years in both Michigan and South Texas, and I can tell you that spring is a season of hope, wonder, and delight no matter where you’re…

the cup: a poem for Good Friday

This is a Good Friday meditation that I penned several years ago. The style is in grateful appreciation of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ influence, but the content is that of indescribable awe of a Savior who would choose to drink the cup of wrath in our place.

Blog Post the First: Being a Declaration of Intention and Desire

Edmund Spenser was preparing to write an epic. Back in the day, it was customary for someone that audacious to declare his intentions in advance by writing something a bit more manageable first. For Spenser, this was a series of 12 pastoral poems called…