In my college years, I was part of an evangelical-leaning group that made use of a small booklet titled the Four Spiritual Laws. A few members of the leadership team swore by this tract as a tool for “witnessing” to non-Christians, the basic approach being to walk them through the tenets it contained and thenContinue reading “Pattern-Changing Questions”
Tag Archives: Blackout Poetry
A Few Blackout Poems
I’ve been making blackout poems for several years now. I was inspired by Austin Kleon to explore the practice: his first book was a collection of blackout poetry he created from newspaper columns. My go-to source is old secondhand books that I think nobody will miss, which is why observers may note a yellow-ish qualityContinue reading “A Few Blackout Poems”
God-Haunted
The band Over the Rhine uses a phrase in the liner notes for their album Ohio that has stuck with me for some time. Co-founder and husband of the spousal duo Linford Detweiler writes of being born in Hartville, Ohio, the small Mennonite town that neighbors my home, and meeting eventual wife and bandmate KarinContinue reading “God-Haunted”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 