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April 2016

April 19, 2016

The Wounds of Resurrection

As my husband prepared for an Easter sermon a few weeks ago, our dinnertime conversations...

April 18, 2016

Conference Envy: A Survival Guide

Yesterday I was running around the park in a T-shirt with a birthday party full...

April 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The Grackles” by Betsy Sholl

Here is a poem that silently enacts a conversion. The poem starts off with a...

April 14, 2016

There Must Be a Word for This

Now spring has come again, the season that’s best for hope. Post-Lenten promises are fresh...

April 13, 2016

Finding Another World in Winterkill

"There is another world, but it is in this one." —William Butler Yeats Reading Yeats's...

April 12, 2016

Charles of the Desert

By Rebecca A. Spears One early June, traveling to a wedding in San Diego, I’d...

April 11, 2016

A Strange Season for Inter-Christian Families

American culture, at this late and plural hour, seems to have pretty well normalized the...

April 08, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Smokers, Sunday Morning, 1975” by Bobby C. Rogers

This poem seems at first to be a straight-forward narrative: a childhood recollection of the...

April 07, 2016

Imitating the Saints

St. Therese once wished aloud that her own mother would die. When her mother scolded...

April 06, 2016

James Tate: Finding the Ultimate in the Ordinary

The poet James Tate died last year. It happened in July. He was seventy-one years...

April 05, 2016

A Dancing Christ

On Holy Saturday, I woke up at my sister's house in northern Minnesota with a...

April 04, 2016

Choose Life, North Carolina

This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses: I have set...

April 01, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Creed in the Santa Ana Winds” by Bronwen Butter Newcott

Growing up in southern California, I experienced the uneasy allure of the Santa Ana’s hot...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 2

Read Part 1 here. By Danielle Leshaw Judaism tells us how to leave. Leaving the...

March 30, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 1

By Danielle Leshaw Father Bill offered a set of instructions. “Walk beside me, never on...

March 29, 2016

Believing in the Beach Boys

The first church I attended as a teenaged new believer swiftly taught me two doctrines:...

March 28, 2016

Fairies and Mystics

On the first day of summer, my daughter created a makeshift microphone in the backyard...

March 25, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Divine Wrath” by Adélia Prado

Multiple members of my family live with chronic pain, which is why I’m always arrested...

March 24, 2016

I Am a Digital Man

I couldn’t record it in my Flava journal app because the transformation happened slowly, like...

March 23, 2016

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul, a prequel to AMC’s milestone series, Breaking Bad, further establishes co-creators Vince Gilligan...

March 22, 2016

Refugees Are People, Not a Crisis

Sometimes the horrors in the news are so overwhelming that I’m left speechless. This is...

March 21, 2016

A Space Program

The tenth item on a list entitled “How to Watch This Film,” which accompanies Tom Sachs' A...

March 18, 2016

Dancing on the Way to Prison

By John Bryant I’m standing in a circle with thirty singing and swaying old men...

March 17, 2016

Changing Positions: A Meditation for Campaign Season

(With help from Donovan, D. T. Suzuki, Qingyuan Weixin, Wallace Stevens, democracy, REM, Bonnie Raitt,...

March 16, 2016

What Happened to Fun?

I was so good, and for such a long time, two weeks at least of...

March 15, 2016

Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry

The Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) is obviously not a religious institution. But damn if...

March 14, 2016

The Living Among the Dead

Thanksgiving Day after I turned four: high fever at dinner, a drive through a blizzard,...

March 11, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Meditation on the Evangelista” by Karen An-Hwei Lee

What if God turned up at your door in the form of a brush salesman?...

March 10, 2016

Praying the Rosary

By Laura Bramon My first rosary is invisible: a string of children’s voices ricocheting off...

March 09, 2016

Finding My Inner Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane lumbered around Deadwood in fringed buckskins, spitting, cursing, and waving her whiskey flask...