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January 2016

January 13, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards for 2015, Part 2

By Kenneth R. Morefield. Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. Coninuing yesterday’s list of...

January 12, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards for 2015, Part 1

By Kenneth R. Morefield The 2015 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards had a decidedly...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

To Illuminate a Small Field: 15 Songs for 2015

By Joel Heng Hartse At the end of each year, I compile a list of...

December 25, 2015

Snow on Snow

Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago....

December 10, 2015

Waiting for the Blessing

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

December 09, 2015

Why We Donate: Two 24-Year-Olds on Meaningful Support

Today, Image Director of Programs Tyler McCabe and Marketing Associate Aubrey Allison share their perspectives...

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...

December 03, 2015

Above Calcutta

By Laura Bramon The summer before you died, I hid on the roof in Tollygunge....

December 01, 2015

Going to the Manger as She Is

By Ann Hedreen I drape a towel over Nick’s head and strap it in place...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

Joining in Life and in Death

By Martyn Wendell Jones When I moved into this apartment with my wife after gaining...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Science and the Death of Philosophy

My boy is a bit of a science geek. He subscribes to Discover and Popular...

October 21, 2015

The Rothko Chapel: The Dark Before the Dawn

By Rebecca A. Spears The few years I lived in Houston’s Menil neighborhood, right behind...

October 13, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 2

By Jenny Shank Continued from yesterday. Catholic imagery appears throughout Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for...

October 12, 2015

Lucia Berlin: A Master of Catholic Fiction, Part 1

By Jenny Shank In September, Lucia Berlin’s posthumous collection of selected short stories A Manual for...

October 08, 2015

Brush With a Famous Writer

By Ann Conway I was walking down a concourse in the Philly airport when I...

October 05, 2015

Dr. Seuss and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

By Kathleen L. Housley I am reading a biography of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Beauty Will Save the Seventh Grade

By Callie R. Feyen The school administrator wants to know when my students will experience...

September 22, 2015

Canticle of Creation

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

September 17, 2015

I Found Him at Subway

By John Bryant I found him at Subway, an old man in a brown jacket,...

September 15, 2015

Dancing with Zoe

By Tali Rose Treece Every day as I walked to school I saw them through...

September 14, 2015

Thou Shalt Not Kill Time: The Ethics of Storytelling

By Daniel Taylor Is The Great Gatsby a crime novel? (There’s a murder.) Crime and Punishment?...

September 11, 2015

Seeking Refuge

By Shannon Huffman Polson I’d just put my two young sons to bed when I...

September 02, 2015

The Embarrassed Samaritan

By Bradford Winters No doubt it was one of the more truly mortifying episodes I have...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

When It Comes to Love, We’re Beginners

By Jeffrey Overstreet During a lecture last March [2011], I spoke fondly of a friend...

August 26, 2015

A Requiem for Rejects

By Chad Thomas Johnston He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows,...

August 21, 2015

Gethsemane Companions

By Dyana Herron Over the past couple of months, facing two family crises that impact...

August 14, 2015

Taming the Busy Trap

By Allison Backhous Troy I’m emerging from one of the busiest seasons of my life....

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 07, 2015

The Day I Became Elijah

By Martyn Wendell Jones In his essay “The Wounded Word,” French philosopher-poet Jean-Louis Chrétien describes...