Writing in the Dust

I write about Christianity: theology, Bible, spirituality. The title comes from the Episcopal Church's prayer at a person's baptism: "Give them… a spirit to know and to love you, and the gift of joy and wonder in all your works. Amen."

At the intersection of religion, classics, and theology.

Modern Humiliation Monthly (book notes and short posts from the author of Gay & Catholic and Punishment: A Love Story)

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Notes on faith, language, culture, and creation from an Episcopal priest in Asheville, North Carolina

Theology is more like poetry than geometry. Theology is "vile for the sake of the gospel" (so says my friend, John Wesley). Aspiring to a vile poetics.

Over here trying to be a Christian “in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world.”

Musings on Anglican theology, history, and liturgy

This is a public notebook of the stuff I've been reading, thinking, and publishing recently.

The best in books, arts, and ideas.

Thoughts on faith, sexuality, theology, culture, and longing

A collection of unusual quotes you probably don't know and will never see but that may interest you. Or not.

Weekly comment on the Revised Common Lectionary as used in The Episcopal Church, from Andrew McGowan of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.