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April 2016

April 11, 2016

A Strange Season for Inter-Christian Families

American culture, at this late and plural hour, seems to have pretty well normalized the...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 1

By Danielle Leshaw Father Bill offered a set of instructions. “Walk beside me, never on...

March 21, 2016

A Space Program

The tenth item on a list entitled “How to Watch This Film,” which accompanies Tom Sachs' A...

March 18, 2016

Dancing on the Way to Prison

By John Bryant I’m standing in a circle with thirty singing and swaying old men...

March 14, 2016

The Living Among the Dead

Thanksgiving Day after I turned four: high fever at dinner, a drive through a blizzard,...

March 10, 2016

Praying the Rosary

By Laura Bramon My first rosary is invisible: a string of children’s voices ricocheting off...

March 03, 2016

My Sh’ma

By Judy Bolton-Fasman Sh’ma yisrael Adonai Elohanu Adonai echad—Hear O’ Israel the Lord is God,...

February 2016

February 16, 2016

Your Ideal Church

I don't mean to brag, but I attend your ideal church. If you’re a millennial...

February 01, 2016

How Much God Loves Us

By John Bryant He was born with cerebral palsy and he has it all the...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

What Shall I Know at the End of My Days?

When I come to the end of my days, what shall I say I know...

January 25, 2016

Listening to Simone

By Christiana N. Peterson The woman stands in the entryway of our common building just...

January 22, 2016

The Glory of the World

By Alissa Wilkinson The Glory of the World—now running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music—is...

January 15, 2016

Honey, I Want a Tattoo

By Brad Fruhauff If Katie had had a tattoo when we met, I probably would...

January 14, 2016

Learning Detachment in the Attic

By Elizabeth Duffy When my cousin became a Dominican sister, she gave away all of...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

God is Sacrificial Love

If God is love, as we’re told, then what kind of love is he? In...

December 21, 2015

Come, Lord Jesus

I've always loved Advent's "O" Antiphons. These are the prayers traditionally voiced during the final...

December 15, 2015

How to Win the War on Christmas

After thirteen years of parenting, my husband and I still know virtually nothing about raising...

December 14, 2015

The Greater Evil: Proscription or Compulsion?

There’s a new law in China, and it’s aimed at weakening a faith. As the...

December 10, 2015

Waiting for the Blessing

By Lisa Ampleman On Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, my church blesses expectant...

December 08, 2015

A Christian Jew and a Jewish Christian

By Alissa Herbaly Coons Summer is here in Australia, a string of perfectly forgettable sunny...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

Christian Kerfuffles, Taking Offense, and the Poetry of Li-Young Lee

In late October, I had the privilege of teaching two workshops at the Indiana Faith...

November 02, 2015

My Soul Thirsts

My children’s Michigan fact book says you can’t go more than eight miles without hitting...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

Blessed Are the Tentmakers

For my daughter, Evangeline Sofia, who celebrated her first birthday on the second day of...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

My Days of Awe, 5776

Impatience. Anger. Wastefulness. Restlessness. Desire. Haughtiness. Greed. Judgement. Pride. § I’ve been paying...

September 23, 2015

The Holy Wafer on the Floor

Sometimes I take the Host in the mouth, other times I take it in the...

September 22, 2015

Canticle of Creation

By Brian Volck This post was made possible through the support of a grant from...

September 21, 2015

Let Me Die Like This

When I die, Lord, let me go in a plane crash, spiraling down, earthward, earthward,...

September 18, 2015

Becoming Food

At five a.m. this morning, my husband woke me while taking money from my wallet...

September 03, 2015

I Come Not to Praise the Megachurch

The church may have begun as a non-spiritual entity, a business of some sort that...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

The Fear of God, Texas-Style

Recently, I found myself in Texas. Driving mostly. Stopping here and there to eat, put...