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September 2014

September 16, 2014

There’s No Original Art

What a joy to be knitting something beautiful for a woman I don’t know and...

September 15, 2014

Detonating Jonah

When news broke this summer that Sunni extremists with ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq...

September 12, 2014

The Machinery of Cowardice Fails the Children of Rotherham

My children once heard someone address me as “Doctor,” and so they asked me if...

September 11, 2014

How to End an Era

We're supposed to shake our heads when Daisy Buchanan, considering a summer solstice celebration on...

September 10, 2014

Songs Dead Men Sing

Guest Post by Cathy Warner In the backseat of our minivan I swig an individual...

September 09, 2014

Slogans in Ruins: Land for Peace, Two State Solution

“Hope lost and fear won,” said Udi Segal, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s Channel 2...

September 08, 2014

My Garden, the Book of Joel, and God’s Plagues

First came the vine borers. These are moths. The females lay their eggs inside the...

September 05, 2014

An American Girl’s Tale

Dave Ramsey, the millionaire evangelical Christian money coach who’s famous for telling his clients they...

September 04, 2014

All Unhappy Families Are Alike

In commenting on my latest essay for “Good Letters,” a man “disabled from an odd...

September 03, 2014

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Creative Writers According to St. Augustine, Part 2

Guest post by Gregory Wolfe The post, continued from yesterday, is adapted from a commencement...

September 02, 2014

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Creative Writers According to St. Augustine, Part 1

Guest post by Gregory Wolfe The following is adapted from a commencement address given at...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Fiction is Truer than Fact

In Jill Lepore’s extraordinary biography of Ben Franklin’s sister Jane, Book of Ages, a short...

August 28, 2014

The Creationist Crisis Reprise

Several months ago I blogged about the Ken Ham Bill Nye debate at Liberty University....

August 27, 2014

Your Life Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

On the last night of Image's Glen West Workshop earlier this month, after a moving...

August 26, 2014

Lessons of The Giver

Memory, of both the best and the worst, is central to guidance. Without it, we...

August 25, 2014

We Who Are Left Behind

“Why’d you let go?” Conrad Jarrett shouts at the ceiling, in a climactic scene in...

August 22, 2014

How to Talk to the Dying

Since being diagnosed nearly seven years ago with a lethal cancer, I have backed my...

August 21, 2014

The Gift of Gravy Days

Well, I’ve reached my three score and ten years. It must sound positively ancient to...

August 20, 2014

The Weary Lion and the Wary Lamb

Author’s note: Like many Jews around the world, I've been following the news out of...

August 19, 2014

Susan Sontag, Simon Weil, and the Pursuit of Seriousness

I could stare for many hours at that famous 1975 picture of Susan Sontag lying...

August 18, 2014

Rules for Celebrating: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 2

Continued from last week. The Way of Saint James—El Camino de Santiago—is a pilgrimage across...

August 15, 2014

Our Mother Mary

Today is the Feast of the Dormition (the “falling asleep”) of the Mother of God....

August 14, 2014

Rules for Celebrating: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 1

My son graduated from college this past June. It took him seven years, due to...

August 12, 2014

Escape from the Holy Land, Part 2

By Bradford Winters Continued from yesterday. Soon after landing at JFK from Tel Aviv Friday...

August 11, 2014

Escape from the Holy Land, Part 1

By Bradford Winters On a Friday morning in mid July, I entered Ben Gurion Airport...

August 08, 2014

Righteous Minds Left and Right

The orthodontist’s new office has a waiting room tricked out with video games—even a genuine...

August 07, 2014

Aesop’s Fables Are Always in Fashion

Called upon to present a gift to a small boy, I was asked to pick...

August 06, 2014

He Fits Right In: Our Story of Open Adoption

I’ve tried to stop policing adoption language, no matter how much phrases like “real mom,”...

August 05, 2014

The New Truth Quashes Dissent

It’s comforting, in these confusing times, to know at least some truths are beyond dispute....

August 04, 2014

A House Blessed

The doorbell rang around 11:00 a.m. My hubby George and I were both upstairs. “Can...