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June 2018

June 27, 2018

The Summer I Wasn’t Attacked By a Shark

Jaws is released the summer I turn fourteen, and my friends and I spend every...

June 26, 2018

The Pope’s Call to Saintliness

Did you know that you're meant to be a saint? So says Pope Francis, in...

June 25, 2018

Monasticism In Lockdown America, Part 7: Holy Fool

Hank’s trembling confession that he’d be killing God if he killed another inmate had charged...

June 22, 2018

Poetry Friday: “I Loved You Before I Was Born”

In clear, resonate language, Li-Young Lee celebrates longing in his poem “I Loved You Before...

June 21, 2018

Monasticism in Lockdown America: Part 6, Icons

The jail staff asked if I would meet with some of the guys in the...

June 20, 2018

An Italian Journey with Auden, Goethe, Sex, and God

Recently, I was wandering around some of the less travelled corners of Tuscany with a...

June 19, 2018

I Feel Bad About My Neck

I feel bad about my neck. Those are not my words; they’re the title of...

June 18, 2018

Yehuda Amichai: My One Poet

If I could have only one poet, I’d choose Yehuda Amichai. He’s the poet of...

June 14, 2018

Monasticism in Lockdown America: Part 5, Holy Elders

With their white beards and deep lines in their faces, the older men stand out...

June 12, 2018

I Am Not My Phone

How You Know It’s Time for a New Phone There was a moment when...

June 11, 2018

Burn after Seeing: On the End of The Americans

The Americans, FX’s drama about Russian spies living in Washington, D.C., has ended its six...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

The Odyssey as Liturgy

I happened to be in the midst of re-reading Homer’s Odyssey when the current issue...

May 29, 2018

Mother’s House

Mother’s house is not a house. Mother’s house is not a cave. Mother’s house is...

May 24, 2018

Between Death and Resurrection

And should you glimpse my wandering form out on the borderline Between death and resurrection...

May 23, 2018

Monasticism in Lockdown America: Part 2, Prostration

Earlier this year during Lent, I visited a Russian Orthodox monastery on an evergreen island...

May 22, 2018

Recently Soft Hearts and Thin Skin

I found myself engaged in another maddening conversation with my four-year old daughter. We were...

May 21, 2018

The Incredible Hulk Meets Queen Divine Justice: A Fable

When Hulk stops in Africa for a drink of water, he happens to be within...

April 2018

April 13, 2018

Poetry Friday: “The Sea Here, Teaching Me”

Moira Linehan’s powerful poem scarcely needs commentary; “The Sea Here, Teaching Me” becomes the experience...

April 12, 2018

Revisiting Moonrise Kingdom

"It's the rhythm in rock music that summons the demons," said the church community of...

April 11, 2018

The Problem with Spiritual Fruits

The band quit playing at church because our priest asked them to sing from the...

April 10, 2018

Singing Silence in A Far Country Near

“Without the traffic, silence / itself would sound red birdsong…” As I’m reading these lines...

April 09, 2018

Stepping into the Virtual Realities of Ready Player One and God’s Not Dead

The best way to write about the third installment of God’s Not Dead is to...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Saint Death and Easter

I got a call from a number I didn't recognize. The voice was low, lifeless....

March 28, 2018

Versed by Jesus Christ Superstar

Holy Week, if I’m being completely honest, was never more than a blip on my...

March 27, 2018

Training the Ear of My Heart

I don’t live a very active life, though observers might deduce that I am always...

March 26, 2018

Black Mirror and My Superego Nightmare

I watched Black Mirror’s “Crocodile” episode feeling as if writer/creator Charlie Brooker had gotten into...

March 22, 2018

Halos and Other Important Things

In second grade my mom put me in an art class taught by a fluffy-haired...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

In a Funk

You’re not sorry you’re alive, just embarrassed. Aware of the burden of your body. How...

February 07, 2018

Paddington to the Rescue

As immigrants fall to the fury of fearmongers, could it be Paddington the bear (a...

January 2018

January 11, 2018

Reynolds Price and Me: The Tale of Two Rhodes Scholars, Part 2

I found myself returning to the work of Reynolds Price in 2011, the year he...