Belvedere
Hemlock
Love-Lies-Bleeding
Pansy
Queen’s Rocket
Ray Grass (singer/songwriter)
Snakesfoot
Wolfsbane

The Pew Research Center has just released a major survey on religion in America. Findings include:

Atheist + Agnostic + “Nothing in particular” grabs the biggest increase (more than doubling in size)
Catholicism takes the biggest hit, dropping down to just under 24% (10% of the the U.S. population is “ex-Catholic”)
Only .7% of the U.S. population is […]

“When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.”
- Wendell Berry
See also “Christianity and […]

Politics cannot solve any of america’s problems. Only God working in the lives of individuals - and those individuals acting as the Body of Christ in the world - only that can solve america’s problems. The question that is always raised - can a christian politician help guide america in a more righteous direction? For […]

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent […]

“the key pathology of our time, which seduces us all, is the reduction of the imagination so that we are too numbed, satiated and co-opted to do serious imaginative work.” - Walter Brueggemann
Have we lost the richness of imaginative creativity to the poverty of popular culture? Discuss.