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December 2015

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 19, 2015

My Wish for My Students

Only this I wish for my students: this semester, I hope you will learn to...

October 2015

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 07, 2015

Life-Saving Moments of Art

In August, the musical duo Alright Alright, composed of husband and wife Seth and China...

September 2015

September 18, 2015

Becoming Food

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

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 11, 2015

Seeking Refuge

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

September 04, 2015

For the Newlyweds

May you have the courage to let go of everything you know about yourselves—everything you...

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 21, 2015

Gethsemane Companions

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

July 2015

July 14, 2015

Beauty, Christian Love, and Gay Marriage

Justice Anthony Kennedy, in the recent Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, wrote the following...

July 02, 2015

Dancing for My Life, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Traditional dance is, by modern standards, inherently misogynistic. The man leads, in...

July 01, 2015

Dancing for My Life, Part 1

“ONE two three, LONG short short—don’t step on her!” Gulya is my dance instructor. She’s...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

Complimentary Angles

Cristin slammed the kitchen door behind her when she came home from work a few...

March 16, 2015

Grace and the Incomplete Flush

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

March 13, 2015

Receiving “What Is”

With gratitude and apologies to Peter Cole I would like to share this poem with...

March 11, 2015

“A Pair of Silk Stockings” and Other Frivolous Pleasures of Mothers

After a harrowing weekend of yelling at my children, I decided I needed to take...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Mama and The Help

In memory of my mother “How come we don’t have a maid?” I asked my...

February 26, 2015

The Courage of Men

By Suzanne M. Wolfe Twenty one men dressed in orange jump-suits are kneeling in a...

February 12, 2015

The Collision

All I saw of the deer at first was the eye: domed, amber and pellucid,...

February 05, 2015

Cutting the Cord: An Observation from The Way of Saint James, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. The Way of Saint James—El Camino de Santiago—is a pilgrimage that began...

February 04, 2015

Cutting the Cord: An Observation from The Way of Saint James, Part 1

Sean was not an easy child to raise. My husband and I became his parents...

February 03, 2015

The Power of Twelve

You won’t want to do it, but I’ll ask just the same: imagine being twelve...

January 2015

January 20, 2015

The Birmingham Project

I was looking into the eyes of a black girl around thirteen years old. She...

January 15, 2015

Breaking Up with My Job

Last week, I left the job where I have worked for the past seven-and-three-quarter years....

January 08, 2015

Girl Meets God in the Classroom, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. On the first day of my class “Spiritual Autobiographies: Theirs and Ours,”...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

In Memoriam

If you live long enough in a place, people will start to die there, but...

December 17, 2014

In Defense of Fruitcake

At some point or another, every Christmas celebrant in America has to draw lines in...