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September 2015

September 15, 2015

Dancing with Zoe

By Tali Rose Treece Every day as I walked to school I saw them through...

September 14, 2015

Thou Shalt Not Kill Time: The Ethics of Storytelling

By Daniel Taylor Is The Great Gatsby a crime novel? (There’s a murder.) Crime and Punishment?...

September 11, 2015

Seeking Refuge

By Shannon Huffman Polson I’d just put my two young sons to bed when I...

September 10, 2015

A Lottery for Barbarians

From time to time in my unorthodox career, I’ve found myself teaching a class—be it...

September 09, 2015

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

Underlying what's wrong with this picture is where it resides. Not in a museum of...

September 08, 2015

Blood and Silver

By Caroline Langston I stood in the security line at the Louis Armstrong International Airport...

September 04, 2015

For the Newlyweds

May you have the courage to let go of everything you know about yourselves—everything you...

September 03, 2015

I Come Not to Praise the Megachurch

The church may have begun as a non-spiritual entity, a business of some sort that...

September 02, 2015

The Embarrassed Samaritan

By Bradford Winters No doubt it was one of the more truly mortifying episodes I have...

September 01, 2015

In Praise of the Amateur

In his book Culture Making, Andy Crouch notes that the only way to change culture is...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

The Fear of God, Texas-Style

Recently, I found myself in Texas. Driving mostly. Stopping here and there to eat, put...

August 28, 2015

When It Comes to Love, We’re Beginners

By Jeffrey Overstreet During a lecture last March [2011], I spoke fondly of a friend...

August 27, 2015

Checked Baggage

It’s evening and I’m about to meet my older sister in baggage claim. Trained by...

August 26, 2015

A Requiem for Rejects

By Chad Thomas Johnston He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows,...

August 25, 2015

How To Begin a Book

I’m a bit Type A for a poet—or for what people perceive as one. I...

August 24, 2015

Where’s the Guilt?

I’ve had the experience of dealing with renters from time to time, though more in...

August 21, 2015

Gethsemane Companions

By Dyana Herron Over the past couple of months, facing two family crises that impact...

August 20, 2015

Exile Among Exiles

My children attend public middle and high school; hence the school year always begins with...

August 19, 2015

Downturned Face, Upturned Eyes

There is no writing more precious and self-indulgent than the essay about the difficulty of...

August 18, 2015

In Defense of Air Conditioning

The summer after my freshman year in college, I made the mistake of signing a...

August 17, 2015

The Boy Who Lived Large

Friday we took the kids and hit the road for Aiken, South Carolina. We were...

August 14, 2015

Taming the Busy Trap

By Allison Backhous Troy I’m emerging from one of the busiest seasons of my life....

August 13, 2015

No Better Place to End, Part 2

By Brian Volck Continued from yesterday. In describing the nature of things, the sciences and...

August 12, 2015

No Better Place to End, Part 1

By Brian Volck This post was made possible through the support of a grant from...

August 11, 2015

Happy Pride Parade

I was in tears watching my city's Gay Pride parade go by this year. Yes,...

August 10, 2015

What Is the Future?

It’s the end of summer in the academic South, and I’m working on syllabi for...

August 07, 2015

The Day I Became Elijah

By Martyn Wendell Jones In his essay “The Wounded Word,” French philosopher-poet Jean-Louis Chrétien describes...

August 06, 2015

Redrawing the Tree of Life in Yellowstone

By Kathleen L. Housley This post was made possible through the support of a grant...

August 04, 2015

Breaking Bad’s Walter White is My Shining Star

When I first met Walter White, I was in pretty bad shape. Incapacitated by my...

August 03, 2015

Original Sin and the Warp Effect

One of the great writers—to my recollection, Flannery O’Connor—said something to the effect that everything...