Author: Aaron J. Smith
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Death by Death
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through poetry and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. He didn’t look like himself. I guess no one… Read more
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Podcast Episode- Mike Shipley, Anarchy and the Kingdom of God
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. Hello friends. Today, we get a chance to… Read more
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Liminal Space
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through poetry and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. The world feels like a tire fire. War in… Read more
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Podcast Episode- Megan McDermott, Poetry as Embodyment
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through podcast, poetry, and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. In this episode, we get to talk to… Read more
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New (relaunched) Podcast
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through poetry and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. I have this podcast. It was called “CulturalSavage” because… Read more
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When We Were on Fire Again
We used to burn so brightly. There was something beautiful about our passion, our fire. It glowed and flickered, raged and shown brightly. We were the future, pastors, worship leaders, evangelists. We were the Joshua generation, charged with ushering the church into a promised land in the midst of a dark culture surrounding us. We… Read more
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I Thirst
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through poetry and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. “I thirst.” These are some of the last words… Read more
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The Gentiles are On Fire
At Pentacost we celebrate the Holy Ghost descending on the first of the church and haunting us all ever since. This is the day of tongues of fire, of mass migration into the kingdom of God, of the birth of the church. The Spirit in her midwifery saw fit to interrupt a fearful time of… Read more
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On Sunday We Saw Glory; On Wendsday We Die
Friends, welcome to The Book of Common Words, where we explore the Christian spirituality of being human through poetry and prose about my life, art, and the Christian faith. I’m your writer, Aaron. This publication is 100% reader supported. Thanks for joining me in this exploration. I guess there was a revival this time last… Read more
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Thoughts and Prayers (Sandy Hook)
Sandy Hook, oh Sandy Hook How I long to gather you under My wings like a mother hen. But I was barred by the NRA And the keepers of the Second amendment Who paying their dues with cash for congress, Casings, and body bags. With the holy AR-15 around Their neck, they only keep Thought… Read more