Fare Forward

Why Place Matters edited by Wilfred McClay and Ted McAllister As a Southern man living in New England, I think often about place. My bookshelf betrays my interest in the my home region, displayin...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/recovering-place/

In his book Word and Church Anglican theologian John Webster writes, “At its best… attention to ‘context’ can remind theology that there is no pure language of Zion, and that theology’s...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/a-place-for-liturgy/

The late Fred Phelps made his Westboro Baptist Church famous by being as outrageously offensive as possible. Perhaps the most universally reviled of Phelps’s many controversial tactics was the ...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/apocalypse-now-and-then-america-rome-and-the-city-of-god/

Being a Christian artist—or an artist who happens to be Christian, or however you want to taxonomize it —can make you feel a bit like Odysseus. Caught between the Scylla of earnest preachines...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/seeing-through-jazz-darkly/

The word “calling” has the power to elicit eyerolls and sighs – a cliché of the worst kind. Though it stirs up deep desires to commit to a higher purpose and raises hopes for divine guidan...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/the-curse-of-calling-and-the-myth-of-creativity/

What would happen if a group of people dedicated themselves to the pursuit of a particular virtue at the expense of all others? That is the question Veronica Roth explores in her popular dystopia...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/divergents-big-missed-chance/

This is the use of memory: For liberation – not less of love but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the future as well as the past. -T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” Releas...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/timeless-moments-memory-time-and-eternity-in-t-s-eliot-and-wong-kar-wai/

The traditional Litany of Saints ends with a series of petitions to God that he might “save his people” from various things: evil, sin, the snares of the devil. Among them is also the entreat...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/the-unprepared-for-death-is-not-worth-dying/

A recent pilgrim recounts some of his impressions coming home from walking 1,000 miles on the Camino de Santiago. I begin with the end. Just after I got into the car, there was a crash. I had fin...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/08/the-way-its-true-is-a-life/

A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definative Guide to Identifying and  Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture by Virginia Savage McAlester Food/Clothing/Shelter Of the well-known ba...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fareforward/2014/07/the-culture-we-live-in/