A Brief Candle: Macbeth as an Antichrist Figure
Even now there are many antichrists. ~ 1 John 2:18 The final battle in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth witnesses an exchange, before swords strike,…
Without a Sacred Context: Human Exceptionalism is Enough in the Mission: Impossible Franchise
We must necessarily be modest about what we can achieve without a sacred context. - Carl Trueman In his D.C. Lecture “The Hour for a New…
Transfiguration
If you went on to where the soul abides In tree or bloom; river or fawn; on wings Of hawk; even bluebird’s light song; ocean’s Always mysterious…
Meditation with “Wind from the sea”
A window frame shadowed by the house’s insides Has curtains like flowing camisoles, Translucent veils printed with wings Of Holy Ghost doves or swallows in flight. Through…
Plumb Line
We crossed the stage At a date now long-etched, Aging us as we layer our lives. All that glittered All that fired All that Promethean luster For…
The Price of Gold
Wordsworth was dead. A bullet through the heart dropped him to his knees. While both his hands stretched out to my brother and me who’d ducked for…
Some Easier Enterprise: A Short Play
Adapted from the short film “By the Water” What if we find Some easier enterprise? There is a place… Of some new Race call’d Man… Thither let…
Laundry Room Prayer
From the warm, stilled drum I retrieve and fold Our clothes in blue-gray morning light in the Mud Room. Mud Room, we call it the Laundry Room,…
The Bible: A Memoir
I identify myself as an individual across time…. And my doing this is an expression of the deep individuality that is part of the human condition –…
Running on the Beach With Rebecca
Bike tire treads, tributaries on sand Stamped with footprints, paw pads, the soles of shoes, Stream before us like kite strings with ribbons. Could we run these…
Dragon Killers
March snaps like the Dragon with claws that sting. The red-shouldered hawks, male and female, ring Sky and air as they call to each other. The male,…
Hudson: A Short Story
Super flumina Babylonis Hudson Burrows knows today will be the day he fixes his son, Caleb. He mulls over his plan, while in the garage, in…
The Women Will Be Here Soon: A One-Act Play
"I seem to see all the most desperate of men threatening new false denunciations." - Boethius A TWO-CAR GARAGE, disconnected from its home. A WINDOWPANE frames…
