In stitches

In Stitches by David Bazan (from his forthcoming album Curse Your Branches).

My body bangs and twitches

This brown liquor wets my tongue

My fingers find the stitches

Firmly back and forth they run

I need no other memory

Of the bits of me I left

When all this lethal drinking

Is to hopefully forget

About you

I might as well admit it

Like I’ve even got a choice

The crew have killed the captain

But they still can hear his voice

A shadow on the water

A whisper in the wind

On long walks my with daughter

Who is lately full of questions

About you

About you

When Job asked you the question

You responded, who are you

To challenge your creator

Well if that one part is true

It makes you sound defensive

Like you had not thought it through

Enough to have an answer

Or you might have bit off more than you could chew

Listen here. See also the recent article.

Justice without Faith is Dead

I highly recommend listening to Eugene McCarraher’s lecture “Justice without Faith is Dead” over at The Other Journal. The lecture was given very recently at the Film, Faith, and Justice forum in Seattle, Washington. McCarraher is one of the most creative and compelling social historians working today and he is also a highly conversant theologian in his own right.

New Hauerwas Audio

 

Here’s another good link, I know, it is not very creative blogging. It is a recent Q&A with Hauerwas on the book of Matthew.

The Stob Lectures: Miroslav Volf

The Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, Miroslav Volf, is a brilliant and original theologian. I read his latest book this summer entitled, The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World and found it quite compelling. The book is largely based on a number of lectures Volf delivered at Calvin College in 2002. You may listen to the Stob Lectures here.