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November 2013

November 07, 2013

Daniel Amos’s “Dig Here Said the Angel”

Dedicated to Billy Corgan, who challenged Christians to “make better music” and branch out beyond...

November 06, 2013

Set the Captive Free

I read my friend Dyana’s Art House America essay about her brother “definitely going to...

November 05, 2013

What We Wish For, What We Think Is True, Part 2

Guest Post By Isaac Anderson Continued from yesterday. After we've gone our separate ways to...

November 04, 2013

What We Wish For, What We Think Is True, Part 1

Guest Post By Isaac Anderson We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen....

November 01, 2013

Requiescat in Pace

Give them rest, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them. The just will...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

The Sabbath and Liberal Arts Education

In The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, Judith Shulevitz characterizes the...

October 30, 2013

You Can’t Hide from Winter

Winter is coming. All of northern Michigan seems to whisper the warning. The sun is...

October 29, 2013

Eve, the Apple, and the Need To Know: The Imago Dei Project

I’ve been thinking about Genesis lately. In this past month, the lectionary included Eve’s succumbing...

October 28, 2013

My Brother John: A Eulogy for the Living

For some months now, I have been ruminating on the writer John Podhoretz’s eulogy in...

October 25, 2013

The Evolution of Evolutionary Language: The Imago Dei Project

I’m a word-watcher. I like noticing which words are winning the popularity contest in our...

October 24, 2013

The Road to Dogmascus

Guest post by Tania Runyan I’ve clearly missed some important cultural boat, for people love...

October 23, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 2

It was not out of sheer flattery that Thomas Merton compared Flannery O’Connor to Sophocles,...

October 22, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 1

When she was twenty-one years old, far from home and as yet uncelebrated, Flannery O’Connor...

October 21, 2013

The Long Wait

My mother’s quavering voicemail was right: I hadn’t called in a long time. I justified...

October 18, 2013

Breaking Up with Breaking Bad

“It’s over, bitch.” That’s how she put it in no uncertain terms as the credits...

October 17, 2013

Honor Thy Mother

It came to me one quiet afternoon, a couple weeks after we were home from...

October 16, 2013

How to Write in a Sick Person’s Body

Guest Post by Paige Eve Chant Not too long ago, just as spring was turning...

October 15, 2013

Why Should Darkness Seem Truer Than Light?

In her memoir, Pieces of Someday, my friend and periodic "Good Letters" guest writer Jan...

October 14, 2013

Nothing Can Stay, Gold or Not

My wife Liz and I met in a bar. For Liz it was in defiance...

October 11, 2013

Leaving the Edges Wild: An Interview with Over the Rhine, Part 2

By Meredith Holladay Guest Post Today I continue yesterday’s conversation with Linford Detweiler about place,...

October 10, 2013

Leaving the Edges Wild: An Interview with Over the Rhine, Part 1

Guest Post By Meredith Holladay September 3 marked the release of Over the Rhine’s newest...

October 09, 2013

Goy Children and Fallen Torahs

Reflections on the Jewish High Holidays 5774. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, I...

October 08, 2013

When a Friend Dies

I received this group email not long ago: Our beloved Beth has passed away. We...

October 07, 2013

Seamus Heaney: Poet of Holy Saturday

Guest Post by Conor McDonough The late, great Seamus Heaney understood the sadness of the...

October 04, 2013

Sarah Masen: The Trying Mark, Part 2

Guest Post By Angela Doll Carlson In yesterday’s interview with Sarah Masen, we chatted about...

October 03, 2013

Sarah Masen: The Trying Mark, Part 1

Guest Post By Angela Doll Carlson The first time I heard Sarah Masen sing was...

October 02, 2013

A Good War Is Hard To Find

A few nights ago, after Jess and the kids were in bed, I finally bit...

October 01, 2013

New World

“There is no death, only a changing of worlds.” —Chief Seattle At night I lie...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Wabi-sabi: Living with Beauty and Ugliness

Yesterday, a man might have killed me. Both receptionists were away from the counter when...

September 26, 2013

Conscience: An Epitaph

Time melts as it’s made, said Anthony Burgess. Each moment is both increase and surcease,...