Dispatches from the Buckle

by Lee C. Camp That medieval Saint Thomas Aquinas insisted that Christian life was ultimately about happiness. This is an odd assertion, perhaps, for us Protestants and free-church folks, who have been so prone to focus upon the rigors of [...] [Read More]

This week’s podcast features host Lee C. Camp’s reflections upon the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864, fought in Lee’s neighborhood, and then concludes with some segments from the Tokens Show entitled “Singing Down the Pain,” recorded [...] [Read More]

This week’s podcast features host Lee C. Camp’s reflections and audio snippets from a recent sojourn with students in Santiago, Chile. For more pictures on the trip, visit Lee’s Flickr album, and for more reflections on the trip, see Lee’s [...] [Read More]

This week, we’re pleased to share a little homiletic indulgence, as Lee calls it. Which is to say, we share a sermon by our own most outstanding host, titled “Salsa and Queso, Salt and Light.” It was delivered on 13 [...] [Read More]

This week, we share the closing segments from our The Prophetic Ethic show. We are pleased to include three Over the Rhine numbers: Called Home, Gonna Let My Soul Catch My Body, and Trumpet Child. We also include a vignette [...] [Read More]

Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Dispatches. This week, we feature some class and grass—complete with Lee’s thoughts on false dichotomies—along with Black Mountain Rag, and a waltz by Russ Barenberg called Return to the Brandywine. We hope you [...] [Read More]

This week, we’re pleased to share more segments from the first act of our recent “A Prophetic Ethic” show. We’re grateful to be able to share two more songs by Over the Rhine – “All My Favorite People Are Broken” [...] [Read More]

This week we share the opening portion of our most recent show, beginning with Lee’s opening monologue, followed by our Most Outstanding Horeb Mountain Boys performing our Tokens Theme. We finish off with Over the Rhine’s fine song, “Spark,” an [...] [Read More]

Walter Brueggemann on doxology as political subversion, leading into a marvelous moment with an accapella singing of one “Doxology,” and yet more conversation on the poetic as telling prophetic truth in a way that is elusive of the royal consciousness, [...] [Read More]

Our Social Media Editor has the week off, but we’re pleased to rerun this fine podcast from our first season of Dispatches.  From “The Christmas Revolution,” we feature an interview with Professor Andrew Bacevich, in which he discusses his book, [...] [Read More]