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March 2016

March 08, 2016

Thawing at the Edges

When the spring teases me one day, outplaying the winter dullness for just an afternoon,...

March 07, 2016

The Abandoned, Broken, and Burned

By the time you read this, inshallah, we will have the new dishwasher purchased and...

March 04, 2016

Learning Poetry, Unlearning God

By Natasha Oladokun In my sophomore year of college, I wrote a poem. Though I...

March 03, 2016

My Sh’ma

By Judy Bolton-Fasman Sh’ma yisrael Adonai Elohanu Adonai echad—Hear O’ Israel the Lord is God,...

March 02, 2016

Good Enough to Tweet

If you go to any restaurant nowadays, you’ll likely see something that at one time...

March 01, 2016

So Much for the American Dream

My six-year-old son caught me off guard. “I wish we had a backyard,” he said...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Love Your Enemies for Lent

Another campaign season is upon us with a vengeance. Actually it's campaign seasons—since the U.S....

February 26, 2016

The Thirst Is Good

When my husband and I were in the very early stages of our relationship, we...

February 25, 2016

Detroit: The Reality of Death and the Reality of Life

At night, through the mottled glass of a door that leads out onto the roof...

February 24, 2016

Peace, My Animal

"Benedic, anima mea," I say each night to the mouse that lives behind my desk....

February 23, 2016

Poetry in a Season of Lament, Part 2

Two Poets Laureate On Grief, Detachment, and Finding New Ways to Live, Part 2 By...

February 22, 2016

Poetry in a Season of Lament, Part 1

Two Poets Laureate On Grief, Detachment, and Finding New Ways to Live, Part 1 by...

February 19, 2016

Fiat Lux: Cathedral of the Pines

This summer in Paris, on the morning before we flew home, I took my husband...

February 18, 2016

Everyone’s Waiting for the Victory Song

Everyone knows what happened. Everyone lifts a steaming spoon of cinnamon oatmeal to their lips....

February 17, 2016

Drive-By Memory

My first memory takes place in Lakewood, CA, a small suburb south of Los Angeles....

February 16, 2016

Your Ideal Church

I don't mean to brag, but I attend your ideal church. If you’re a millennial...

February 15, 2016

The Coen Brothers, Plato, and the Imagination

By Santiago Ramos Note: This review contains mild spoilers. Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Brothers’ latest...

February 12, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Sabbath” by Dan Bellm

Sabbath as beloved bride and queen: familiar tropes in Jewish liturgy and thought. Now, thanks...

February 11, 2016

Comfort and Dis-ease

By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook When I was in college my theology professor, lecturing on the Kingdom...

February 10, 2016

The Beautiful Miracle of Our Fragility

While I was finishing grad school, I worked two jobs, the first at an infectious...

February 09, 2016

Honey, Let’s Get Tattoos: Tattoos and Embodiment

Continued from a previous post. Read part 1 here. After my wife Katie and I...

February 08, 2016

Why Art?

I'm propped in bed reading my current bedtime novel. Pausing to reflect on a particularly...

February 05, 2016

Brooklyn: A Drama of Discernment

One of the hardest things in life is having two good choices that are completely...

February 04, 2016

Kolam: The Beauty of Uselessness

This one’s for Carin Ruff, and by way of answering my niece Kate’s question. A...

February 03, 2016

Creating Sacred Literature

“We are just at the beginning,” Charles Taylor wrote in his lumpy but essential tome, A...

February 02, 2016

The Erotic Powers of the Holy Spirit

My thirteen-year-old son had seen the Viagra commercials for years, but never understood what they...

February 01, 2016

How Much God Loves Us

By John Bryant He was born with cerebral palsy and he has it all the...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

The Confessions of X: An Interview with Suzanne M. Wolfe, Part 2

By Gregory Wolfe and Suzanne M. Wolfe Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. GW: One of...

January 28, 2016

The Confessions of X: An Interview with Suzanne M. Wolfe, Part 1

By Gregory Wolfe and Suzanne M. Wolfe Earlier this week, HarperCollins/Nelson released The Confessions of X, Suzanne...

January 27, 2016

Where to Hang Your Grief

My daughters Lydia and Becca, ages 12 and 10, are thoroughly delighted by the contemporary...