On Contentment
Many forces today argue against the practice of contentment such as advertising, ‘helping’ the economy recover, an individual’s desire to control circumstances — and perhaps also personal uncertainty about contentment itself.
Why should I be content when there are so many problems facing our world? Is worry the same thing as discontentment — and isn’t worrying simply a normal part of everyday life?
On Counterculture
What does it mean to be in the world but not of it?
A Reading of “The Summer of My Gathering Mortality”
From the Spring 2013 volume of The Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature.
On Authenticity
Being Real Is a Real Problem
In an age of modern media, our comfort with illusion has worked its way into our souls.
