Welcome!

The Arrow Song Blog aims for the heart and sings while it flies—because precision without beauty misses the point, and beauty without truth just makes noise.

I’m Scot Lahaie, and I live at the intersection of three callings that refuse to be separated: professor, pastor, and storyteller.

As a theatre scholar, I coordinate the online graduate program in theatre at Regent University, where I teach courses in Theatre History, Dramatic Criticism and Theory, Shakespeare, and Theatre & Culture. My academic work explores how we engage art and culture through the lens of a Christian worldview—not to sanitize or domesticate the questions, but to wrestle with them honestly.

As a pastor, I serve as Lead Pastor of The Furnace Christian Fellowship, a contemplative-charismatic house church in Canton, Ohio. We’re recovering the ancient mystical practices of Christianity while remaining wide open to the Spirit’s movement. I’m the author of Return to the Inner Temple: Reclaiming the Secret Places in Christian Discipleship, which explores what it means to cultivate the interior life with God.

As a creative writer, I’m working on the Realms of Light saga—a seven-book mythic fantasy series that weaves biblical typology through different historical eras. I also write poetry, short stories, and stage plays (fifteen full-length credits and counting). My creative work asks: What happens when imagination becomes a vehicle for encountering the sacred?

Arrow Song is where all three callings breathe together. You’ll find reflections on life and culture, explorations of contemplative spirituality, investigations into the intersection of quantum physics and biblical faith, excerpts from my fiction, poetry that surprises me as I write it, and the occasional theological rabbit hole.

I’m married to Ute, who keeps me grounded and laughing. We live in Canton, Ohio.

Welcome to the conversation.