Chad Bird
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“Night Driving: Notes from a Prodigal Soul” by Chad Bird
In the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the main character Joel Barish (played by Jim Carrey) meets a quirky, blue-haired woman named Clementine (Kate Winslet) on a train, and after a short period of mutual flirtation, they begin an emotionally intense relationship. Then one day Joel receives a crushing revelation about Clementine […]
Take Your Son, Your Only Son, Whom You Love
My feet rarely stand idle when God is around. He’s always telling me to go. It’s been that way from the beginning, when he spoke to me in Ur: “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” I remember hearing those first words as […]
The Gospel According to Gideon
Israel walked into the future facing backward. She spoke of ‘what would be’ in terms of ‘what had been.’ She longed for a resurrection and transfiguration of her past in the days of the Messiah. Her hope was in a new genesis, a second Adam, an eschatological exodus. Thus, when Israel’s prophets spoke of the […]
Easter Morn at the Cemetary
Ten acres of refrigerated rural soil,Thickly frosted in Easter’s pre-dawn;Subterranean saints, quilted in earth,Smile warmly at the band of believers,Huddled above to catcall verses of victory,Into the mocking mien of chiseled stones;The rocky trophies of mortality’s coup,North, south, west, and east of Eden. Wizened hags, pimpled teens, snotty-nosed kids,All dust to dust, prey of the […]
Job, Theologian of the Cross
The book of Job is a catechism on the theology of the cross. Throughout the centuries countless believers, bruised by the rod of suffering, have embarked on a pilgrimage into the heart of this ancient story to inquire, “Why do the innocent suffer?” Many have retreated from the answers sadly disappointed, others passionately frustrated, and […]
