Currently Reading:
-
Recent Posts
Search Space Enough, and Time
Categories
Author Archives: awtraughber
Res(e)t
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything particularly personal here, including any updates on the “temporary vocational stretch” that I’ve had the opportunity to have over the last 18 months. The stretch continues, of course. I still assert that … Continue reading
A Song from the Painted Desert
The second semester of the year is about to begin, which means that Christmas break is turning into some early January chaos. Lots of things to take care of, for sure. Here’s a recording of Andrew Osenga’s “Give Up” from … Continue reading
Bringing It All Together
I’m giving a “professional development” talk at work tomorrow. Here’s my content: I really hope things blend together well . . .
Posted in Books, Faith, Movies, Teaching
Leave a comment
“The Story We Carry in Our Bones”
One of my “best moments” in 2018 was the opportunity I had in the summer to “hang out” with James K. A. Smith for a while. Not long, mind you, as there were a few dozen other people at Laity … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Faith, Life in the Fifth Act
Tagged Habits, James K A Smith, You Are What You Love
Leave a comment
“We Want to Play the Music”
As the year comes to an end, I find myself with a short stack of articles and essays that I never quite got around to writing about here. One of them was yesterday’s question of religious language through Jonathan Merritt’s … Continue reading
The Question of Religious Language
Let’s start with the classic Peanuts strip that ran at gocomics.com on Christmas day: Most of us, I think, would relate a bit more with Charlie Brown, who understands the Christmas story primarily through the main images of the gospels. … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Friendship, Life in the Fifth Act, Teaching
Leave a comment
Chesterton and “the World’s Inn”
The season of Christmas continues for many even as others see it as three-days gone. Here’s another Chesterton poem for the season from The Spirit of Christmas. It’s an interesting thought, really, that places the Christ Child at a particular … Continue reading
Reflecting on John
Today many Christians around the world spent time reflecting on the life of John the Evangelist, the apostle who penned a gospel and three letters found in the New Testament. John is a fascinating figure on multiple levels, particularly with … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Commonplace Book, Faith, Friendship, Life in the Fifth Act
Tagged Donald Miller
Leave a comment
Season’s Readings: 2018 Edition
One thing I’m trying to do a little more of as I get older is to establish some set “reading patterns” for different parts of the year. Holidays are often geared that way, of course. Then you work in classics … Continue reading
Advent Waiting, Christmas Celebrating
And just like that the Advent season comes to an end. It was a good and challenging Advent season for me. We spent the weeks between Thanksgiving and exams thinking about Advent in chapel. My guide through much of that … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 