Practicing Solemn Joy
Welcome to my workshop, where I explore the meaning (and limits of) education, work, and fellowship–and the thread of solemn joy running through them all.
I believe the best theories ought to become best practices. Check out the blog, where I tinker with big ideas for meaningful living.
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Mourning: worth the work
Recently, our daughter Lorraine fell in love: with Middle English. “Where can I learn more of this? It’s amazing!” she exclaimed, after reading along with a recording of Genesis 1: “1 In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe. 2 Forsothe the erthe was idel and voide, and derknessis weren on the face
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To work is to love.
The very first, white-hot migraines marched into my life while in uniform, behind a steering wheel. As an Asbury student and Army cadet, I headed every Wednesday to UK’s Buell Armory for our ROTC training labs, often returning with pounding headaches, nausea and light sensitivity. Thankfully, because I spent these commutes with Zach, we also