What Lasts, and What Doesn't
March 2, 2023 | Jim Angehr
One of the pots I try to keep on my reading stove is nonfiction essay collections. (In general, the various pots for me are fiction, something about music, graphic novels, literary biographies, Christian theology, and Christian living.) During a...
Who's Calling Tuesday Fat?
February 23, 2023 | Jim Angehr
Yeah you right: happy Mardi Gras, everyone! In most American locales, this past Tuesday was just another dreary, winter-ish affair, but in my native New Orleans, carnival rides again. For your humble preacher, Tuesday was a workday, but I still...
What Dreams Are Made Of
February 16, 2023 | Scott Flovin
Whenever I catch a cold, it usually lasts about a week and has a pretty regimented schedule. I don’t know what that says about me, but I can generally set my clock to its different stages. The first stage is a fever that usually lasts a...
The Problem is Me
February 9, 2023 | Jim Angehr
One more set of thoughts from Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, friends. (Find part one here.) At the very end of the novel, the protagonist, Theo, shifts from what’s been a narrative mode into attempting to summarize all of the years that...
Starry, Starry Blog
February 2, 2023 | Jim Angehr
One of my favorite Five Golden Things pods from last fall was recording a “top five big books” episode with Tony. (We only got about halfway through our respective lists, because hey, big books take more time to talk about than little...