Month: April 2022

Guest Post – Practicing a Lament Pedagogy: Learnings from a Survey Course

For the past eight years, I have regularly taught a large, survey course on global poverty and justice at Wheaton College. In the course we learn about difficult and troubling... »

Remnant Israel Trip

Remnant Israel Trip

Remnant Montage from the Israel Trip, 2016 »

Living on Sabbath Time: Day 10/30

Weekend Devotional Study In my experience, trying to recalibrating my life around a Sabbath week vs. a Work week is akin to fasting coffee (or your favorite caffeine source).  When you get through the headaches things start to settle down and fasting becomes a blessing.  That is how taking the leap of faith to practice [...] »

Converting the Gaze: From Gazing to Seeing in Richard Wilbur’s “The Eye”

This paper draws on aspects of Jean-Luc Marion’s account of “saturated phenomena” to explain Richard Wilbur’s poem “The Eye.” In Being Given and elsewhere, Marion contrasts “seeing,” a mode of... »