Articles By: David K Wheeler

David K Wheeler is the author of Contingency Plans, a collection of poetry from T.S. Poetry Press. He writes for The High Calling and contributed to The Pacific Northwest Reader, an essay collection from Harper/Delphinium. Other work has appeared in The Morning News, The Outlet blog, and Jeopardy Magazine. He also blogs at http://davewritesright.blogspot.com. Follow him on Twitter @daviewheeler.

See Me Naked

See Me Naked
Nothing gets me believing there’s a hell more than when Christians talk about sex. Anyone who received the Talk from sweaty-palmed religious folk know that there is no tribulation more painful, unsettling, not to mention godless. If your conversation went beyond “Don’t do it,” it likely elevated...
January 20th, 2012 | Books | Read More

How We Do Horror

How We Do Horror
Quiet suburbia experiences upheaval in Tobe Hooper’s 1982 supernatural collaboration with Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist; but, anyone watching the movie now would have to say the most terrifying scene is seeing Craig T. Nelson without a shirt. The restless spirits and psychic blasts aside, the first...
November 22nd, 2010 | Essays, Featured, Film | Read More

What Good is God?

What Good is God?
From the beginning we are told that God is good, he loves us and wants the best for us. Then, anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to break can look around at this horrible world—one of power struggles, natural disasters and disease, racial and religious animosity, the buying and selling...
October 6th, 2010 | Arts, Books, Featured | Read More

Summer Crushes

Summer Crushes
Summer heat has finally stumbled upon the Pacific Northwest, and I’ve stuck myself in the basement of somebody else’s house with friends who don’t even live there for hours at a time, all for the sake of music. When I’m not writing for free and working a day job, I do what I can to compose. I...
August 13th, 2010 | Featured, Music | Read More

The Knowledge of Good and Evil

The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Bobby’s small group goes for donuts every Thursday evening, to a small, local shop, next to a gas station, where they make fresh donuts every day. We go right around the time all the treats are being pulled from the fryers, being laid out in the case; and, for the last few weeks Levi has been fasting...
April 22nd, 2010 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Moving Toward Simple

Moving Toward Simple
Straight out of college, I’m trying to figure out exactly what to do with all my spare time. There’s something mysterious and unsettling about an evening without a definitive set of required tasks. There aren’t chapters to read and questions to reflect on. There are no papers to finish; no guides...
March 29th, 2010 | Essays, Featured | Read More

Imperfect Birds

Imperfect Birds
You don’t need me to tell you to read Anne Lamott’s new novel, Imperfect Birds, because you probably will, regardless. And I’ll do my best not to ruin anything for you. Out in April from Riverhead Books (a member of the Penguin Group), Imperfect Birds is the third installment in the story of Rosie...
February 1st, 2010 | Books, Featured | Read More

Will 2010′s Most Important Christian Band Be The Same As 1999′s?

Will 2010′s Most Important Christian Band Be The Same As 1999′s?
If you weren’t looking for it, you probably missed the 2008 return of Sixpence None the Richer, humble and unheralded, a return that, for me, sees their re-arrival in the midst of a second age of Christian music, which is retroactively furthered by the success of bands like Switchfoot and The Fray...
December 8th, 2009 | Featured, Music | Read More

Until Our Faces Have Been Blown Away

Until Our Faces Have Been Blown Away
True fact: you will not find two writers as dissimilar as C.S. Lewis and Chuck Palahniuk so proximal as in this essay. You might be surprised at authors I list among my favorites. Yes, I appreciate the father of modern Christian apologetics, the genius behind Narnia, right alongside the man who gave...
October 8th, 2009 | Books | Read More