Delta Spirit is an American band formed in San Diego, fronted by singer-songwriter Matthew Logan Vasquez. They make passionate, roots-influenced rock that carries real weight. I first came across them back in 2014 while living outside Baton Rouge. A reviewer once described them as something like “U2 before they lost their angst.” That was enoughContinueContinue reading “The Song That Still Gets Under My Skin: Delta Spirit’s “Patriarch””
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The Quiet Work of Noticing
A reflection a former colleague shared on LinkedIn made me stop and think. I first started reading it while I was standing in line at the checkout. I didn’t finish it there. I came back to it later at home. It was something she had written about a season of life that felt defined byContinueContinue reading “The Quiet Work of Noticing”
Done Caring What’s Right
There’s a moment when you realize the problem isn’t that people believe the wrong things. It’s that they’ve stopped caring which things are true. I’ve been watching that happen across my country for a while now. Both sides. Every tribe. Same reason, though they’d never admit it — and honestly may not even see it.ContinueContinue reading “Done Caring What’s Right”
A Headline, a Rabbit Hole, and the Upper Room
I wasn’t looking for a theology lesson this morning. Just sitting in the recliner in the living room, cats sleeping in morning sun through the windows, the new normal now while we’re scrolling. Outside, the pines are still damp from the rain yesterday. Then a Newsweek headline stopped me cold: a Catholic group called theContinueContinue reading “A Headline, a Rabbit Hole, and the Upper Room”
Torn Awake
We’ve been reading in the ancient accounts from Israel’s early kings… real history, at least as I’ve always believed it, not something I read like a storybook. My wife and I have been going through it together in the mornings, usually with coffee, the city still half-asleep around us. There’s something about those mornings thatContinueContinue reading “Torn Awake”