Picking up Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time in an Oxford bookshop this past May was a surreal moment. After all, it was C. S. Lewis—who taught at Oxford’s Magdalen … Continue reading Time is Ignorance: From C. S. Lewis to Carlo Rovelli
Category: Writing
Peace in the Dark
You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither … Continue reading Peace in the Dark
All the Ages I’ve Ever Been
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods … Continue reading All the Ages I’ve Ever Been
Yes, I Have a Pulse
If my relative silence here (since December 2013, good Lord) didn’t tip you off already, I guess it’s time to admit: 2014 has been a doozy. In some respects, this has been the most challenging year Luke … Continue reading Yes, I Have a Pulse
The Epic in the Ordinary
One of my favorite modern parables is G.K. Chesterton’s Tremendous Trifles. It’s short and sweet – just over a thousand words – but it’s become something of a touchstone for me in the years since I first read it …
Creation vs. Consumption
I write for a living – in two different ways. I’m a web content writer/editor for an Internet marketing firm, which means I output around 13,000+ words a week, translating into nearly a thousand pages/blogs/articles a year …
God’s Language
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the … Continue reading God’s Language
I Know I Can’t Return
For the past six-odd years, I’ve been working on a manuscript. I call it a manuscript because right now, it doesn’t really resemble a novel, despite clocking in at around … Continue reading I Know I Can’t Return
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