SBC: Magic of the Silences
November 16, 2023 | Jim Angehr
As I wrote about last week, can there be anything better than the sliver of silence on side 2 of Bruce Springsteen’s The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle? In it, we listen to the ascending piano figure that concludes the...
BC: When Symposiums Sing
November 9, 2023 | Jim Angehr
In the days long before music services and social media, music fans inhabited message boards, listservs, and tape trading circles. Compared to our everything-at-your-fingertips present, musical gratification was much delayed for said fans, but it...
The Most Wonderful Blog of the Year
November 2, 2023 | Jim Angehr
In the midst of much shadow and darkness, dear readers, Letters to You arrives with an early Christmas present: itself! At the same time, however, my “sorry that the blog has been offline” is a real one. I genuinely enjoy writing...
Always Burning, Since the World's Been Turning
July 20, 2023 | Jim Angehr
So then, how should we think about creation care in ways that are both robust and distinctly Christian? (As a review of where we’ve been, you can check here for part one of this particular set of ramblings.) The first two chapters of the...
It's the Environment, Stupid
July 13, 2023 | Jim Angehr
Blogs are fun! One of the ways in which I like to use this space is to treat Letters to You as a space for outtakes from recent sermons. One of the saddest parts of my sermon writing job is that each week, I need to make cuts to the drafts of my...