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The end of fines and late fees

The year’s door shuts. The last red berries fall
and leave the rowan branches bare and dark
when in the night the wind begins to lift.
The sea booms white and huge;
a ledge of snow hallows the ben’s bare head. And then
it’s still: stars breathe the blue-black sky like brine.
The only colour left next day is grey
except when sudden sunlight comes to glow
the granite headland out across the sound,
firing the rubbled rock a bonfire orange bright
so all there is to do is stand and watch

Czech printmaker David Wojkowicz challenges our traditional ways of visualizing biblical narrative. A theologian and an amateur photographer, he developed a graphic vector software program to create what he calls “abstract Bible illustrations,” combining as many as seven overlapping and offset images in handcrafted digital prints. Wojkowicz’s nonfigurative art pieces are inspired by Bible texts, both well known and obscure. By linking word to image, he encourages viewers to tease out their own meanings in the interplay of simple geometric forms and patterns.

Matt and Adam are joined by Amy Frykholm to talk quests, failure, and Richard Donner's 1985 movie The Goonies. 

Influencer culture and LDS theology fit together surprisingly well.

Because I could not drive, my mother had to drive me
to the phobia clinic where I went to get over my fear of driving,
when I was twenty.  My mother blazed along at a faster clip
than the speed limit, in love with the road more than where the road led,
a love I would never know.  I daydreamed beside her, wondering
what the world’s history would have been, beginning with the Bible,
if essential characters had been phobic.  If Samson suffered from melissophobia—

Church celebrity is complicated.

for Sophia, on her confirmation

Peter C. Brown’s project is urgent and personal.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. —Rainer Maria Rilke

In copious curls, her brown hair
         reaches the small of her back,
                  a tangle she can barely brush