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July 2015

July 31, 2015

Wrestling with Sunday Mornings

This past Saturday afternoon I warned my husband, “I’m not going to church tomorrow.” In...

July 29, 2015

Bullets in My House

By Paul Luikart Last Wednesday I settled down on the couch to do something I’d...

July 28, 2015

Poets and Pope Embrace our Planet

Poets have no problem seeing the world evolving within God's care. Okay, that's too general...

July 27, 2015

The Mystery and Terror of Retirement

The day after I let my wife know that we had enough money to pay...

July 23, 2015

Dear Patheos

Dear Patheos: I hope you guys are doing well. I’ve been meaning to drop you...

July 22, 2015

A Boy, a Wren, and the Kingdom

The little boy moves amongst his creation in the sand: a montage drawn with a...

July 21, 2015

A Bug Night of the Soul

It was a night of tumors, broken relationships, lost jobs, and loneliness. A night of...

July 20, 2015

God Has Got to Be Real

God became man, so that man might become God. —St. Athanasius What you find-ah

July 17, 2015

The Eighth Day: Reclaiming a Neglected Novel

It must be a common occurrence—having certain inanimate things make periodic appearances throughout a life,...

July 14, 2015

Beauty, Christian Love, and Gay Marriage

Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, wrote the following...

July 13, 2015

Airbnb and the Art of Hospitality

As I write this, my husband and I are on our twentieth day away from...

July 10, 2015

My Evolving Identity

I've just read a thirty-page article called "Whitman Music: The Problem of Adaptation." A...

July 09, 2015

Art on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 2

By Richard Cole Continued from yesterday. When Weinman completed her fellowship in Europe, she came...

July 08, 2015

Art on Fire: The Life and Work of Melissa Weinman, Part 1

By: Richard Cole In a recent painting by Melissa Weinman, a small, white rose floats...

July 07, 2015

Morning Prayer and The New York Times

Summer morning routine: a cup of Awake tea, the Opinion page of The New York...

July 06, 2015

The Bearable Weightiness of Being

By Amy Peterson I was restless this spring, edging manic. I think my kids noticed....

July 02, 2015

Dancing for My Life, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Traditional dance is, by modern standards, inherently misogynistic. The man leads, in...

July 01, 2015

Dancing for My Life, Part 1

“ONE two three, LONG short short—don’t step on her!” Gulya is my dance instructor. She’s...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Dissonant Note

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

June 29, 2015

Learning to Pray

Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything. —Abba Moses The...

June 26, 2015

Divine Drudgery

Two weeks after we moved to the Mennonite community in rural Illinois, a baby was...

June 25, 2015

Smoke Break

After I’ve peeled the plastic protective layer off the nicotine patch and am holding the...

June 24, 2015

Franz Wright: Solving the Problems of Poetry

Maybe all poets are unhinged. There is historical evidence for this going back to ancient...

June 23, 2015

Ray Bradbury Lives Forever

On Labor Day weekend in 1932, a twelve year-old boy from Waukegan, Illinois, having just...

June 22, 2015

The Art of the Authentic: Bill Baer’s Times Square

In 1973, Orson Welles made a documentary, F for Fake, in which he followed the...

June 19, 2015

Is the Gospel Good News or Bad?

Continuing a little bit what I started with my essay “What Is a Christian?,” I’ve...

June 18, 2015

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

By Allison Backous Troy May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt...

June 17, 2015

Wanted: God—Dead or Alive?

If you practice a religion faithfully—faith-fully—, why do you do this? And why is it...

June 16, 2015

Before the Fall of Baseball

By Chad Thomas Johnston When I was a child, school did not rank high on...

June 15, 2015

His Murderer and His Keeper

Some days I can’t remember: Am I Abel or Cain? Blackberry soda in the afternoon...