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August 2015

August 13, 2015

No Better Place to End, Part 2

By Brian Volck Continued from yesterday. In describing the nature of things, the sciences and...

August 12, 2015

No Better Place to End, Part 1

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

August 03, 2015

Original Sin and the Warp Effect

One of the great writers—to my recollection, Flannery O’Connor—said something to the effect that everything...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Wrestling with Sunday Mornings

This past Saturday afternoon I warned my husband, “I’m not going to church tomorrow.” In...

July 30, 2015

Having Enough: Jacob, Esau, and the Great Books

Guest post by Jonathan Hiskes It feels silly to say I studied the classics because...

July 24, 2015

The Horseshoe Crab’s Evolutionary Success

By Kathleen L. Housley This post was made possible through the support of a grant...

July 20, 2015

God Has Got to Be Real

God became man, so that man might become God. —St. Athanasius What you find-ah

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Dissonant Note

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

June 29, 2015

Learning to Pray

Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything. —Abba Moses The...

June 26, 2015

Divine Drudgery

Two weeks after we moved to the Mennonite community in rural Illinois, a baby was...

June 19, 2015

Is the Gospel Good News or Bad?

Continuing a little bit what I started with my essay “What Is a Christian?,” I’ve...

May 2015

May 01, 2015

Jesus and Legos in the Deep, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. “Judas the transgressor,” we Eastern Orthodox sing during Holy Friday Matins,“was unwilling...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Jesus and Legos in the Deep, Part 1

I read about a shipping container holding five million Lego pieces that fell into the...

April 27, 2015

Jesus: Here, There, and Everywhere

Gertrude Stein once said of her hometown, Oakland, California, where she was raised after having...

April 24, 2015

The Soul of the Law

At the beginning of the old Norton Anthology of English Literature (4th Ed.) appeared this...

April 17, 2015

Jesus Through Poets’ Eyes

In my Catholic faith, Easter lasts for seven weeks, until Pentecost; so I'm not too...

April 16, 2015

Make It Old: A Wedding Anniversary Epithalamion

In the beginning was a wedding. The ceremony began with light. The ceremony included the...

April 13, 2015

No Glory in Jericho

I was standing with a Palestinian Muslim and three Jews. Jericho. The ancient city. Some...

April 10, 2015

Prayer in Five Parts

“Prayer…is always available to us.” –St. Seraphim of Sarov I I sit atop my red...

April 06, 2015

Internet Jubilee: A Holy Year of Mercy

On a recent Sunday, my pastor preached on the idea of the jubilee year as...

April 03, 2015

It Is Finished: Christ’s Words from the Cross

When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And bowing his head,...

April 02, 2015

The Kiss of Judas

When Judas approached Jesus in the Garden and kissed him, how do you think Jesus...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Dollar Store Evangelism

Because I enjoy the finer things in life, I ran into Dollar Tree the other...

March 26, 2015

Monasticism In Lockdown America, Part 7: Holy Fool

Continued from yesterday. Hank’s trembling confession had charged the small jail visitation cell where...

March 20, 2015

My Only Begotten Sin

Because I remain restless and impatient even in middle age, I am often only halfway...

March 19, 2015

The Bible, Science, and Higher Education

By Vic Sizemore In an evening church service at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg,...

March 16, 2015

Grace and the Incomplete Flush

Almost two years ago my husband and I bought a condo in a cool old...

March 12, 2015

Signs, Parables, and The Lord of the Rings

I’m reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time. I inwardly cringed...

March 09, 2015

Sojourners in the Darkness

My mother, an uneducated woman in her sixties, said she would ask [his murderer] to...

March 06, 2015

God in the Godforsaken Places

I live in the shadows of Washington, D.C. It’s a big place and said to...