Communication
All Saints has the opportunity to improve our communication to the congregation (and beyond). At least, that’s one way to put it. More often than not, the opportunity to communicate well feels more like a challenge; and a significant one…
Over the Rhine
A year ago, I was granted the privilege of interviewing Linford Detweiler of Over the Rhine. Armed with a notebook, a small recorder, two nice bottles of wine (a thank you gift), and a friend/photographer (Stanton Newman), we spoke for…
Birth of the Cool
Why does it always take visitors coming in town to get me out to see something cool? I always talk about going to see art shows or hear music but then end up just walking my dog, sitting on the…
What do you do?
Somewhere along the way (was it 2nd grade?) we started to get the idea that big books, books of consequence, didn’t have pictures. Dismayed, we accepted the burden of plodding through the rest of our typeset lives. Thankfully, author Alain…
Picturing Easter
Easter Sunrise Service at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Michael Rougier, 1955. All week we’ve been working with the idea of how to visually represent Easter. The explorations led in many different directions before ending with these, various Easter scenes from around the…
Three Kinds of Men, by C.S. Lewis
"There are three kinds of people in the world. The first class is of those who live simply for their own sake and pleasure, regarding Man and Nature as so much raw material to be cut up into whatever shape…
Doug Burr, The Shawl
Signed copies of The Shawl, Doug Burr’s third album, will be available at All Saints this Sunday. But first, please allow me a story: In January 2008 Martha and I spent a few days in northern California to celebrate of…