In my personal life, I have a fairly streamlined life. If you don’t count the books (!) I don’t display a lot of knick-knacks. There’s the owl collection I inherited, but most of the flat surfaces here are available for books and papers to rest on. Which they do! ** Two happy things overlapped this […]

We have a guest arriving soon-ish to Chez Soques. Tidy-minded as we are, over Thursday night’s dinner we reminded ourselves to make the guest room ready… which I internalized as: finish out the half-projects that got tucked in there. Objects standing in for the projects in play: boxes of books that might go into our […]

“Siri, what’s the menu at the Mohawk?” “I found a Mohawk Lounge on Red River. Is that the one you want?” “Yes.” “I can call them or give you directions. Which do you want?” “Neither.” “Big Brother is a book by George Orwell. Shall I read it to you?” “No.” “There’s nothing to read!”

I often find God’s provision odd. This morning I thought I didn’t have enough time before my trainer-workout to dig into homework… and besides, I had no clean underwear in my drawer because it was still in the laundry room. Hey! Laundry is interruptible! So I folded and put away… all the laundry. At the […]

I’ve hit the kind of behindedness that has me saying, “OK, God, I’m going to do this one next thing. PROMISE ME you’ll worry about all the rest… and right when I finish, tell me the next one next thing!” There’s not much creativity in that much compression. So instead, I will show you the […]

I can see I’m going to get a lot of practice thinking in sermons. This term, my Hebrew exegesis syllabus states we are to hand in three sermon points for each translation we are assigned. In theory, we get to do this after benefit of our class discussion, but in real life I suspect I’ll […]

Prompt from Seminary of the Southwest’s T4325, “Theopoetics: Theory and Practice”:What passage or idea from this week’s readings made your heart sing? “I circled back right back to where I had begun, to the question of beauty. Back to the questions that science does not ask, not because they aren’t important, but because science as a way of […]

Back when the World Wide Web was young, it was popular to include, front and center on one’s site or page, a graphic that looked like a yellow road sign of a stick-person digging. (Sometimes these would be –gasp!– animated.) Below would be the caption, “This page (or site) is under construction.” Even back then […]