When I talked to Spence Smith, a founding member of the five-time Grammy-nominated band Big Tent Revival, he had just come back from a run, which was appropriate given that Smith is a triathlete who took up the sport after… Read More
David Greusel has designed stadiums for major league teams including the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Houston Astros. Yet this principal architect at Convergence Design in Kansas City, Missouri, suffered for years under the message that his work didn’t matter. “It’s all… Read More
Documentary on E Street Band’s ‘Big Man’ premieres at Garden State Film Festival. Clarence Clemons had dispersed a crowd on the Great Wall of China so a filmmaker could record him playing his saxophone when a member of the crowd… Read More
Who knew the Ivy League gem offered a wealth of free public religion events? As a girl growing up in Point Pleasant Beach, I didn’t give much thought to Princeton University. It was the 1970s and I was, shall… Read More
Pete Eckert is a unique artist featured in the documentary Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. I reviewed the film earlier this year and talked to Eckert afterward about his spiritual and artistic journey. Here’s our conversation,… Read More
My latest post is up at the Christianity Today women’s blog, and it’s one I really love because the artists it features are so inspiring (both the film makers and the photographers). I had the privilege of speaking… Read More
My first column is up at Urban Faith. It was inspired by the International Arts Movement’s Encounter 10 gathering. That’s one of the speakers, David Sacks, talking about his gorgeous photography work in the photo above. I interviewed… Read More
First a confession: I’m in the meet and greet line after poet extraordinaire Robert Pinsky read and described his work to a crowd from his (and my children’s) hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, when the woman who had been… Read More
Yesterday, my husband and I attended a book signing by former L.A. Times journalist William Lobdel . The signing took place at a book store in historic Clinton, New Jersey . The book (Lobdell’s first) is Losing My Religion: How I Lost… Read More
Pulitzer Prize winning poet C.K. Williams will be reading. I highlighted his work in a previous post. My son and I will be there. Husband says he draws the line at poetry readings, even though it (poetry) was one… Read More
New Jersey, where it’s not too hot and Gramma’s spaghetti always hits the spot. I wanna’ go home, now you know that I been missin’ it. I can’t get back; I’m lost like Odysseus. Where I’m at… Read More
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