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September 2013

September 16, 2013

Confession: Yom Kippur 5774

I rise with the congregation. I form a fist. They form a fist. We form...

September 13, 2013

Chrysalis, Catacomb, Cloud Part 2

Guest Post Jen Hinst-White Continued from yesterday. Rob goes to bed; I go to...

September 12, 2013

Chrysalis, Catacomb, Cloud Part 1

Guest Post Jen Hinst-White How did I never notice before? An ultrasound room has all...

September 11, 2013

Spiritual Counsel Part 2: Prayer and the Desert

As I wrote yesterday, my spiritual director, Fr. Bill Shannon, had said early in our...

September 10, 2013

Spiritual Counsel Part 1: Barking Dogs

“It’s good that you see spiritual direction in terms of a dog, instead of only...

September 09, 2013

The Image Top 25 Contemporary Writers of Faith List

Gregory Wolfe “I’m sick of Flannery O’Connor.” That was the opening sentence of a recent...

September 05, 2013

Isaac Unbound

Deborah* sat across the café table, cappuccino growing cold, tears brimming, lower lip trembling. “Jake’s...

September 04, 2013

Today’s Child Sacrifice

The following will be delivered as a d’var Torah, reflections on the Torah reading on...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Falling Upward: Don Draper Meets Richard Rohr

Guest Post By Cathy Warner The opening credits of Mad Men have always disturbed...

August 27, 2013

I Hate Summer

We are on the lip of September. August has passed rapidly once again, predictably, dying...

August 26, 2013

The Mill and the Cross

In Breughel’s panoramic painting, “The Procession to Calvary,” the fallen Savior, collapsed under the cross beam,...

August 23, 2013

Words for Good and Evil, Part II

Continued from yesterday. “Why is it possible,” asked Richard Feynman a year before he won...

August 22, 2013

Words for Good and Evil, Part I

In the months to come, England’s National Health Service will sterilize a young man with...

August 21, 2013

We Have Eternity in Our Hearts

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the...

August 20, 2013

Yeshua Ha’Mashiach

In drafting my last post, “Orthodox Films Fill the Void,” I intended to end the...

August 18, 2013

Can I See You?

The vision test for the Army aviation pilot school application caused great angst among my...

August 16, 2013

Fast-Food Funeral Procession

The line lurched forward one vehicle at a time, halogen halos radiating from headlights. Although...

August 09, 2013

The Bible as Icon

For Vic Sizemore With six children in a Southern Baptist family in the 1970s, we...

August 07, 2013

Orthodox Films Fill the Void

Living on the F train subway line in Brooklyn, I am regularly exposed to one...

August 05, 2013

The American Divide

This is not an essay about politics but I have to begin with politics because...

August 02, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 2

By Warren Farha Guest Post Continued from yesterday. An increasing torrent of books and articles...

August 01, 2013

In Praise of the Printed Book, Part 1

By Warren Farha Guest Post Note: This post and the one following it have been...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Cutting Away the Noise

Fifteen years ago, there was no end to the noise. It took a cutting to...

July 25, 2013

Belief and Belonging

Last week I went and watched my son graduate from Virginia Boys State. After the...

July 24, 2013

The Poetry of Self-Absorbed Young Love

Until I was thirty-two, I was afraid to think about God. I panicked at what...

July 19, 2013

What Came Before Numbering Our Days?

What came before “there was evening and there was morning, a first day,” and “there...

July 18, 2013

Camping with God

The exodus (small “e”) was a family of five fleeing the New York summer in...

July 16, 2013

Holy Water

"One must have faith and pray; the water will have no virtue without faith." –St....

July 12, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Recently I sang Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Seattle Symphony. In...

July 11, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 1

“Tell me a story,” my son has started to say after reading his bedtime books....