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by Matthew Clark

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  1. S6:E35 – Where the River Goes: Malcolm Guite, “Full-eyed Love”

    Meet poet, priest, scholar and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Malcolm Guite. Malcolm chose song number eleven from the album called "The Dream of God" and wrote an epic closing essay for The Well Trilogy about the great joy set before us: the Beatific Vision of Christ's shining face when he...

  2. S6:E34 – Where the River Goes: Ned and Leslie Bustard, “Toward a Harvest of Beauty”

    This week, meet Ned Bustard and his late wife, Leslie. Together they created Square Halo books, hosted conferences, and produced enormous amounts of visual art, poetry, and beauty. Ned took up the task of finishing an essay Leslie started for "Where the River Goes. Before she passed, she had…

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  3. S6:E33 – Where the River Goes: Douglas Kaine McKelvey, “What is Not Costly is Not Hope”

    Meet author, songwriter, speaker and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Douglas Kaine McKelvey. Doug chose song number nine from the album called "Almost Time" and wrote a deeply honest and beautiful essay reflecting on the costly nature of staying engaged in real hope. The post S6:E33 – Where...

  4. S6:E32 – Where the River Goes: Nicole Howe, “Prayers in Neon Chalk”

    Meet educator, author, mom, and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Nicole Marie Howe. Nicole chose song number nine from the album called "Strong Man" and wrote beautiful personal essay reflecting on childhood experiences of disappointment in God, and how the Great King Jesus bends down low as…

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  5. S6:E31 – Where the River Goes: Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, “Also”

    Meet George MacDonald Scholar, Christian ecologist, retreat host and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson. Kirstin chose song number seven from the album called "Sing like you did" and wrote an astonishing poetic essay on the God of Creation and our response to his call on...

  6. S6:E30 – Where the River Goes: Esther Moon, “Sea-Changed”

    Meet educator, literary scholar, and essaysist for "Where the River Goes," Esther Moon. Esther chose song number six from the album, the title track, called "Where the River Goes" and wrote a wonderful essay incorporating insightful water imagery in Shakespeare, hilarious personal worst-vacation...

  7. S6:E29 – Where the River Goes: Micah Hawkinson, “One Short Sleep”

    Meet writer, father, programmer and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Micah Hawkinson. Micah chose song number five from the album called "Even at the Grave" and wrote a beautiful essay on foster care, hard goodbyes, and the hope we have in Jesus Christ even as we stand at the graveside. The...

  8. S6:E28 – Where the River Goes: Elisabeth Adams, “There in a Minute”

    Meet editor, teacher, mentor, and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Elisabeth Adams. Elisabeth chose song number four from the album called "The Last Enemy" and wrote a courageous essay about navigating many different seasons of loss and grief, faithful lament, and the ways Jesus accompanies…

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  9. S6:E27 – Where the River Goes: Ruth Naomi Floyd, “From Darkness to Dawn”

    Meet jazz composer and performer, educator, and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Ruth Naomi Floyd. Ruth chose song number three from the album called "Where the Morning Dawns" and wrote a powerful essay about human dignity, accompaniment in grief, hearing the blues song Jesus sings at the...

  10. S6:E26 – Where the River Goes: Rachel Mosley, “The Father’s Joy”

    Meet illustrator, singer/songwriter, mother, teacher and essaysist for "Where the River Goes," Rachel Mosley. Rachel chose song number two from the album called "Today" and wrote a wonderful essay about family life, feelings of being on the outside of things, and the surprising invitation of God…

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  11. S6:E25 – Where the River Goes: Steven Beebe, “Longing for Home”

    Meet professor, scholar, and essayist for "Where the River Goes," Dr. Steven Beebe. Steven chose the first song on the album, "How Long?" and wrote a very honest personal essay exploring, in a world aching for rescue from all kinds of death, the Christian hope for all things to be made new. The...

  12. S6:E24 – Stefanie Peters, “Walking into a Psalm”

    This week, please welcome my friend Stefanie Peters. Stefanie is an Editor at Library of America in New York City, where she has worked to preserve the writings of Wendell Berry, Jonathan Edwards, Margaret Fuller, Ernest Gaines, Madeleine L’Engle, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among others. She earned…

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  13. S6:E23 – On the Building of Forts

    The last week or two I’ve been on the road for some work and some visits, which means I’ve been spending more time in my camper van, which is a converted Sprinter called “Vandalf the White.” This week, I’m musing on the child’s impulse to build forts, how our imaginations are populated by the...

  14. S6:E22 – The invisible threads of our stories

    This week, since I was down in Florida for the Mere Christians C.S. Lewis Conference and thinking about stories, I couldn’t help but remember this same time last year when Vandalf the White had a massive breakdown on the way to this same event! Stressful as it was, it turned out to be an occasion...

  15. S6:E21 – City Walls, pt 2

    This week, in City Walls, Part 2, I’m exploring the ways we try to manage our fear of vulnerability by mitigating risk through simulated life, whether it’s by hiding behind the wall of a screen, or shaping our lives around the idol of self-protection. How might God be inviting us outside our…

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  16. S6:E20 – Easter: Secret Strength and Deeper Magic

    ...But wait, there's more! It's still Easter, or Easter-tide, all the way till Pentecost on May 24th! So, today I'm sharing two interrelated readings on the theme of Easter Joy. One from Alexander Schmemann that I'll read, and one from Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" read...

  17. S6:E20: Holy Week: Easter Sunday

    Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia! Well, friends, thank so much for walking through this week with me. I've really needed it, personally. In this last Holy Week episode, Amy Baik Lee will read her piece "In the space of a single word", Son of Laughter (Chris Slaten) will…

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  18. S6:E19 – Holy Week: Saturday, The Gift of the Quiet In-Between

    What do we do with this strange, suspended Saturday? This in-between time, this "Nondum" or "not-yet" time, after Jesus's death but before his Resurrection? For his first followers there was no certainty of what was to come. Surely, this silent Saturday is a part of Jesus's gift to us, too, right...

  19. S6:E18 – Holy Week: Good Friday

    This is Crucifixion Day, Good Friday. This is a hard day, because Jesus’s brutalized face, faces us with the truth about ourselves - asking us to face him with our true faces, and discover that an unexpected new life is possible in Him. Amy Lee will share "The Blood-bought gift of loneliness"…

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  20. S6:E17 – Holy Week: Maundy Thursday

    It's Maundy Thursday. "Maundy" means mandate or command, and this is the day Jesus washes his disciples' feet and mandates that they love as he has loved them. The Last Supper takes place today, after which Jesus prays at Gethsemane in anguish as his disciples fall asleep. Then he is betrayed…

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  21. S6:E16 – Holy Week: Wednesday, Mary Does a Beautiful Thing

    On this Wednesday of Holy Week, I wonder how lonely Jesus felt? No one really gets what he's doing. But then Mary breaks the jar of costly perfume. She gets it somehow, and is promptly attacked by the others for her "foolishness". Today, we'll look at Mary's beautiful act, Taylor Leonhardt will...

  22. S6:E15 – Holy Week: Tuesday, Remembering Abraham

    On this Tuesday of Holy Week, I'm trying something different. I'm sharing a fictional imagining of Jesus as he camps outside Jerusalem, remembering the promises made to Abraham so long ago and how they are about to be fulfilled, finally in himself. I'll also share a song, Malcolm Guite will read…

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  23. S6:E14 – Holy Week: Monday, Cleansing the Temple

    This Monday of Holy Week, we continue walking with Jesus to the cross. So far he's wept over Jerusalem, entered to short-lived praise, and now he makes his way to the City's broken heart, the Temple. I'll share a reflection and a song, Malcolm Guite will recite a sonnet, and Brian Brown of the...

  24. S6:E13 – Holy Week: Palm Sunday

    This is Palm Sunday. Our Story begins today with Jesus, having resolutely turned his face toward Jerusalem, entering that City to shouts of praise that he knows will quickly change to shouts of condemnation. But He knows exactly what he is doing; he has come to die. I'll read a passage from...

  25. S6:E12 – City Walls, pt 1

    This week, I’m looking at a contrast the folks at Bible Project brought up between God providing Adam with an Ezer (strong delivering ally) in Eve against Cain who, in fear of vulnerability, built a wall (city) around himself. Will I trust God’s way of relationality (which requires…

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  26. S6:E11 – Patterns of Reality: Music and Riches

    This week, my phone randomly started playing a section of Boethius’ “The Consolation of Philosophy” (I have a very philosophical phone), and I ran across a little line about the richness of music that sent me down rabbit hole about patterns of reality and what makes for a truly rich life. Also,...

  27. S6:E10 – Unreliable Narrators

    This week, I’m looking at the idea that, to some degree, we all have to deal with a little storyteller that lives in our head–a storyteller who doesn’t always read the situation accurately for one reason or another. And I’m looking at a great little book about unreliable narrators: Katherine...

  28. S6:E9 – The sweet poison of a false infinite

    This week, I’m sharing some thoughts that emerged from a conversation I had on a walk with an old friend last week about a phrase from C.S. Lewis’ sci-fi book Perelandra, and how we’re called to pull back the veil on things that claim to give life but are really offering us the “sweet poison of a...

  29. S6:E8 – Please, don’t mind your own business

    This week, I’ve been looking at the big ways our lives are affected by small choices. There’s a whole field of research in Network Dynamics, in fact, that shows how deeply interconnected humans are, and how our choices—kind or cruel—make more of an impact on others than we could ever imagine. The...

  30. S6:E7 – Growing up wise and innocent

    This week, a few conversations reminded me of a family story that my Grandmother used to tell about my sister talking to God when she was a little girl. That made me think of some Chestertonian ideas about childhood and what real maturity might look like, if good childlikeness were treasured as...

  31. S6:E6 – Building forward into something that will never end

    Building forward into something that will never end by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/OTW_S6_E6-Building-forward.mp3 Follow Follow Follow Follow Sign up for the Newsletter Thanks for signing up! First Name Last Name Email...

  32. S6:E5 – Come live in my driveway!

    Come live in my driveway! by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/OTW_S6_E5_Come-live-in-my-driveway.mp3 Follow Follow Follow Follow Sign up for the Newsletter Thanks for signing up! First Name Last Name Email Subscribe Become a...

  33. S6:E4 – We’re going to need a new song, Moses

    We're going to need a new song, Moses by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OTW_S6_E4_a-new-song-Moses.mp3 Follow Follow Follow Follow Sign up for the Newsletter Thanks for signing up! First Name Last Name Email Subscribe Become…

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  34. S6:E3 – Horse-sense and the Meaning of the World

    Horse-sense and the Meaning of the World by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OTW_S6_E3_Horse-sense-and-the-meaning-of-the-world.mp3 Follow Follow Follow Follow Sign up for the Newsletter Thanks for signing up! First Name Last...

  35. S6:E2 – Sitting very still, very cold, for a very long time

    Sitting very still, very cold, for a very long time by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OTW_S6_E2_Sitting-very-still.mp3 Follow Follow Follow Follow Sign up for the Newsletter Thanks for signing up! First Name Last Name Email...

  36. S6:E1 – Reclamation: Fixing up a Four-Wheeler

    Reclamation: Fixing up a Four Wheeler by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/OTW_S6_E1_fixing-a-four-wheeler.mp3 Follow Follow Follow Follow Sign up for the Newsletter Thanks for signing up! First Name Last Name Email Subscribe...

  37. S5:E17 – A Tale of Two Trees: Jonathan Koefoed, “Moonlight in the Desert: Singing the Sojourner’s Song”

    A Tale of Two Trees - Jonathan Koefoed “Moonlight in the Desert: Singing the Sojourner’s Song” by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/OTW_S5-E17-Koefoed-Essay.mp3 Jonathan Koefoed is Associate Professor of History and Director of...

  38. S5:E16 – A Tale of Two Trees: Susan Cowger, “Time Between the Times”

    A Tale of Two Trees - Susan Cowger, "Time Between the Times" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/OTW_S5-E16-Cowger-Essay.mp3 Susan Cowger is the author of a poetry collection, Slender Warble (Wipf & Stock/Cascade, 2020), and a...

  39. S5:E15 – A Tale of Two Trees: Anita K. Palmer, “Mercy in the Wind”

    A Tale of Two Trees: Anita K. Palmer, "Mercy in the Wind" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OTW_S5-E15-Palmer-Essay.mp3 Anita K. Palmer has always turned to pen and paper to figure out what she thinks, feels, and believes.…

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  40. S5:E14 – A Tale of Two Trees: Amber Salladin, “Singing the Feast of the New Creation”

    Amber Salladin, "Singing the Feast of the New Creation" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OTW_S5-E14-Salladin-Essay.mp3 Amber Salladin is a conductor, pianist, worship leader, singer, organist, and educator based in…

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  41. S5:E13 – A Tale of Two Trees: Lancia E. Smith, “Reaching for the Unseen”

    A Tale of Two Trees: Lancia Smith, "Reaching for the Unseen" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OTW_S5-E13-Lancia-Smith.mp3 Lancia E. Smith is an author, photographer, teacher, and business owner. She’s the Founder and…

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  42. S5:E12 – A Tale of Two Trees: John Barnts, “Downside Up”

    A Tale of Two Trees: John Barnts, "Downside Up" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OTW_S5-E12-Barntss-Essay.mp3 John Barnts wishes he could spend all his time reading, writing, and talking about interesting things....

  43. S5:E11 – A Tale of Two Trees: Jason Smith, “The Power and the Pit”

    A Tale of Two Trees: Jason Smith, "The Pit and the Power" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OTW_S5-E11-Jason-Smiths-essay.mp3 Jason Smith serves on the board of An Unexpected Journal, as a strategist for the C. S. Lewis...

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