Chase Hairston

Professor of Literature & Worldview, reader, husband, father, [song]writer. Grizz, fiction, coffee, & any combination thereof. Always hopeful, always striving.

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

@jaredcwilson In an attempt to spin-off this worthy thread into a new one: who, in your opinion, are some of the true craftsmen working today?

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@brainpicker @Nicolas_Griffin

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@pj_schreiner @MikeCosper Ha! There's a vast and interesting web to be uncovered here, I'm sure, to explain what could lead both of you—given the overlap in your Venn diagrams—to this shared moment. Something in the Louisville water? Something related to your mutual friends??

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

Hey @MikeCosper & @pj_schreiner so, you both have transfiguration books coming out...on the same day. Just feels like something we should talk about.

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

@MikeCosper @pj_schreiner Yea I'm particularly looking forward to looking at how (at least with your chapter(s) that deal most directly with the transfiguration) the two different voices/approaches/intended audiences play out in discussing the same topic. Should be interesting and instructive! Excited.

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

(Been looking forward to Mike's since 2018! Ha)

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

Also I am I'll be writing on that prior to February for a doctoral term paper and would've loved to consult both books for that so...I'd appreciate a little consideration of ME in the future! 😂

In short, just wanted to say I'm really looking forward to both.

[Andrew Abernethy @AbernethyOTProf]

Book Giveaway

Today is the release of The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness @ivpacademic

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[Kate Bowler @KatecBowler]

A Blessing for When You Don't Know How to Pray

Teach us how to pray, God,
when our faith doesn’t feel like comfort.
when there are not easy answers or tidy scripts.
when there are no other words but lament.

Teach us how to pray, God,
when we see Christ in Gethsemane
at the center of it all.

Teach us how to pray, God,
when the Spirit groans alongside us,
speechless too, at the pain,
at the inexplicable, at the unfair.
Joining the chorus of others
in this agonized prayer.

Teach us how to pray, God,
May our words of lament
turn toward acts of love,
as we remake this beautiful,
terrible world, together.

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

@birdchadlouis @Nicolas_Griffin

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Our family LOVES the Apostles' Creed volume of this series. I encourage everyone to check it out! It edifies, teaches, and warms the heart of non-kiddo readers, too.

[☩ Natasha Kennedy ☩ @natashakennedu]

📚 🐱 GIVEAWAY! 🐱 📚

I’m doing a giveaway of the new FatCat Ten Commandments! You’ll get a signed copy o’the book early (before 🎄!) along with “DoorCat” (made and painted by me). DoorCat can hide in ur 🏠, somewhere new each day! RT and following me each get you in!

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

Someone shaped trees into that aural AND visual work of art, then Yo-Yo Ma (via Bach) shaped sound into this masterpiece. "The heavens declare the glory of God," yes; & at our best, in concert with creation/nature, we do too. Now: let's be part of raising up more artists & poets!

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

(1/2) Just incredible. May this help us move through the world with ears tuned to the witness-bearing worship of Creation. And since that cello was once a tree like those around him, this video is a beautiful example of the Cultural Mandate:

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

This version of Bach’s first cello suite was recorded live in the Great Smoky Mountains. I’ve always thought of Suite No. 1 as “Nature at Play,” so it was a dream to play it with the birds, the trees, and the rushing brook. ▶️ https://t.co/AQn2pIuZQM

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

Psalm 90:12 - Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

@samueld_james Excellent choices, yea. Thanks! I always start semester 1 with Bret Lott's "On Precision" (from his *Letters and Life*) which is enigmatically fantastic. Enigmatic in that it is always difficult to articulate why/how it is so good...but it is! Ha.

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

@samueld_james As someone both obsessed with strong prose and who teaches writing at a Christian college, I'd love to hear what other texts you'd assign, too!

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

The Story of scripture in four phrases repeated throughout its pages:

I love you.
I am with you.
Don’t be afraid.
You can come home.

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

@HootenWilson @pepperdine I teach a similar course, but the literature angle is only a part—my favorite part!—of it. What texts will you assign?? Always looking for more resources myself.

[Chase Hairston @ChaseHairston]

@HootenWilson @DrJTPennington Plus...who doesn't feel the apocalyptic, all-conquering joy of the Lord when singing at the tip top of their lungs, "And nobody in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was is ever gonna bring MEEEEE DOOOOWWNNNNNNN!"
😂 I get chills every time & feel absolutely superpowered.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

🎉 BOOK GIVEAWAY 🎉

This new edition of a classic by Eugene Peterson—with a foreword by me!—releases Aug. 15 with @ivpress.

Retweet (or quote tweet) this tweet, and after 24 hours, I will randomly pick one of those to receive a copy!