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July 2012

July 19, 2012

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt thou behold the good...

July 18, 2012

Staking My Life on Farm Boys

A Farewell: Kelly Foster is retiring from the Good Letters blogging team with this post....

July 17, 2012

Praying the Divine Office with Flannery O’Connor

For over twenty-five years, my husband and I have prayed morning and evening prayer together....

July 16, 2012

Living Fossils: Discovering Undercover’s Branded

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found...

July 13, 2012

Of Monks, Conversion, and Radio Astronomy, Part 2

Guest Post By Richard Cole —Continued from yesterday. On my second day at the abbey,...

July 12, 2012

Of Monks, Conversion, and Radio Astronomy, Part 1

By Richard Cole Guest Post In the middle of life, I fell in love. For...

July 11, 2012

The Bleeding Woman: an Imagining

—This story was inspired by Mark 5:21-43, the gospel reading for Sunday, July 1. Twelve...

July 10, 2012

A Psalm for Surgery

Seamless, my passage through a day and from day to day: from dawn to dusk,...

July 09, 2012

The Stations of the Cross on the A Train, Part Three

—Continued from Friday My morning commute to work on the New York City subway during...

July 06, 2012

Stations of the Cross on the A Train, Part Two

In the first installment of this essay, I told of a project by a British...

July 05, 2012

Moonrise Kingdom and the Divine Symphony

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

July 03, 2012

Coming Home to Fatherhood

I recently saw a brief clip of a ten year-old girl in her classroom who...

July 02, 2012

My Kingdom Come

“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Baseball and the Law of God

Last Friday night, a freak microburst descended on our neighborhood with eighty mile an hour...

June 28, 2012

Who Needs to Read Anymore?

At the community college where I teach—actually in the state capitol two hours away—a massive...

June 27, 2012

Writing on Empty

Last week, I finished the fifth revision of my fifth novel, and got notice from...

June 26, 2012

Why All This Music?

Guest Post I grew up in the Mohawk River valley of upstate New York. By...

June 25, 2012

Art at the Crossroads, Part 2

Continued from Friday In order to start treating being an artist more like a...

June 22, 2012

Art at the Crossroads, Part One

Have leisure and know that I am God. —Psalm 65:11 For a long time...

June 21, 2012

A Living Mythology

In the beginning was Ginnungagap. So begins one of Snorri Sturluson’s Norse creation stories from...

June 20, 2012

To See Her More Clearly

Growing up, my siblings and I were left on our own to figure out how...

June 19, 2012

Still Life

I walk to the kitchen cupboard to take out plates for dinner, and the corner...

June 18, 2012

Ray Bradbury Lives Forever

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

June 15, 2012

In Another Lifetime

Early one recent morning, I’m still half-asleep. The cat lies curled up between Craig and...

June 14, 2012

Half Man, Half Alley Cat

Upon hearing Sun Kil Moon's newest record, Among the Leaves, I pictured Mark Kozelek as...

June 13, 2012

What I’ve Been Given

Six dogs: Snoopy, Prince, Woody, Ramona, Leon, Bubby. All but Bubby now nothing more than...

June 12, 2012

Stations of the Cross on the A Train, Part One

Hot town, summer in the city / Back of my neck getting burnt and gritty…...

June 10, 2012

First Position and the Competition Crucible

All of the dollars and expertise that produced The Avengers, Men in Black 3, and...

June 08, 2012

Children Before the Ravaging

Even if you only saw the trailers for the 2005 film, The Exorcism of Emily...

June 07, 2012

The Airman’s Final Flight

My cousin Tom Hardy died three weeks ago in Columbus, Mississippi, less than twenty miles...