Few blogs, or media of any kind, have been as arresting as the Boston Globe’s The Big Picture. Alan Taylor’s blog tells captivating stories, post after post. Its big pictures offer windows into the small places we never see.  His year-end retrospective is a masterwork, something to give yourself time to gaze at and think…

All Beliefnet bloggers are offering their picks for the best books on religion in 2008. Here are my top 5: Surprised By Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N.T. Wright I interviewed Wright about this book in the spring, and it continues to inform my thinking. I’m not always…

When I became a Christian in 1993, I became a very radical Christian. (Read all about it.) On some days back then, the only music I could find worth listening to was this odd 1970s worship legend named Keith Green. He had big bushy hair and a big bushy beard–from 1994-1999, we were basically twins–and…

Hat-tip to Nate Barksdale and Andy Crouch at Culture-Making.com for introducing me to the musician Joe Pug today. Nate calls the song “Hymn 101” one of his favorites of the last six months, and I’ll definitely be digging into the tune for the next six, and then some. There are a lot of singer-songwriters in the mold…

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