Restoring the Image: Jesus the New Adam

Restoring the Image: Jesus the New Adam

Our stories are precious things.  They flow through us—and out of us—in rivulets of nouns and verbs and all the other fragments of human speech that give life its form.  Language is how we enter the world—both literally as well as figuratively.  The Christian Bible...
Cool Hand Luke: From Icon to Meme (and back again)

Cool Hand Luke: From Icon to Meme (and back again)

When most think of Luke, they think of the ancient physician who wrote a biography about Jesus.  But most don’t think of Luke as an artist.  In fact, Luke is counted as the patron saint of artists. According to the writings of the early church, Luke was one of the...
Coffee with Theophilus

Coffee with Theophilus

The following story is, obviously, fiction.  It’s a conversation that might have happened if the events of the early church had happened in our culture.  Luke was the author of one of the four gospels, which tell the story of Jesus, and the sequel book called Acts....
David Grohl: The Grammy’s, Art and the Gospel

David Grohl: The Grammy’s, Art and the Gospel

If you saw the Grammy awards, you know that what rocked the house was not the presence of all the rising young stars, but the speech David Grohl made when the Foo Fighters earned the award for best rock performance: “This is a great honor because this record was...