silence, minor poet -- today with elora

Today, I am honored to be sharing over at my dear friend Elora's blog.

There’s really only one way to slice a pie, so I’ll be frank about this: I’m used to being the center of attention.

In interviews, receiving donors to my former university, hosting dinner parties, discussing future projects, I’m the one holding a Moleskine open with pages covered in thin black ink having stayed up half the night before brainstorming every calculated move before we even meet. I hold forth frequently, often when I don’t necessarily intend to. Conversation lulls, I’ve read something interesting in Garden & Gun or heard something that morning on NPR, and within moments, I’ve taken charge of the table.

Keep reading, today, over at Elora's space?

Meet Preston

Preston is a twenty-something once-upon-a-time conservative Southern Baptist from Texas who learned to read saints, cross himself, and move across the world to China, England, and Scotland. Since, he's been theologically conservative, oft politically liberal, but radically pro-life, a believer in sacraments and sacramentality, a sort-of Christian feminist, an idealist pacifist who also understands the need for civil defense ... and a handful of everything else in-between. He thinks of himself now as a haphazard and patchwork Bapto-Anglican, though he is becoming confirmed in the Anglican tradition. This blog is his repository of working this whole faith thing out day by day, bird by bird. His first book, Tables in the Wilderness, a memoir of God found, lost, and found again, is due out autumn 2014 with Zondervan.