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September 2012

September 18, 2012

Torah Revealed and Withheld: Part Two

(Continued from yesterday.) I’m not ready to leap from my son to your son, God....

September 17, 2012

Torah Revealed and Withheld: Part One

Now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son. Genesis...

September 14, 2012

The Armchair Astronaut Packs for Mars

This post is adapted from my manuscript, The Stained-Glass Kaleidoscope: Essays at Play in the...

September 13, 2012

Monks, Mandalas, and Faith Healing

After the initial cleansing ceremony, they worked in silent concentration. Hour after hour they knelt...

September 12, 2012

Imago Dei

What does it mean to write poems in the Christian tradition? Creative writing teachers at...

September 05, 2012

The Collapse of Western Civilization Begins in Your Dentist’s Chair

I have a toothache that’s getting worse, but I’m not going to a dentist because...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

The Poetics of Painting: Part One

Part One: Pigments on a Canvas Guest Post By Daniel Siedell With this post we...

August 28, 2012

The Severe Wind Event

I stood Saturday morning and looked up at the massive oak tree broken about twelve...

August 27, 2012

Orthodoxy and the Returns of Love

This summer marks the eleventh year of my conversion. I’ve spent the past eleven years...

August 21, 2012

Halos and Other Important Things

By Jessica Eddings-Roeser Guest Post In second grade my mom put me in an art...

August 20, 2012

Rediscovering Rilke

Like many people, I discovered the writings of Rainer Maria Rilke in college. I took...

August 17, 2012

My Online Footprint

Part Two: Repentance In Part One of this post, aptly subtitled “Resistance” by our new...

August 14, 2012

Shaping the Heart

The following post is an edited version of the commencement address given at the graduation...

August 08, 2012

The Boy Who Lived Large

Friday we took the kids out of school early and hit the road for Aiken,...

August 06, 2012

Varieties of Quiet: Christian Wiman’s Pensées

So profound are Christian Wiman’s pensées in the current issue of Image that I feel...

August 03, 2012

Shouting “Meaningless!” at the Devil: On Mötley Crüe and Ecclesiastes

This blog post is adapted from my manuscript, The Stained-Glass Kaleidoscope: Essays at Play in...

August 02, 2012

Finding Poetry and Meaning in Internet Clicks

Three minutes, maybe four. Six minutes, maybe seven. A little bit of time. This morning...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

The Deeds of Jerry Sandusky

I avoided reading about the trial of Jerry Sandusky—the Penn State assistant football coach recently...

July 23, 2012

Depression, Gift, and Legacy

For Johnny, of course My mother has been dead a year now, and it has...

July 20, 2012

The Glen Workshop: My New Local Church

I don’t go to church. I haven’t for a number of years. Apparently that doesn’t...

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 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 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 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...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Ray Bradbury Lives Forever

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

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…...