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May 2013

May 31, 2013

Lamenting an Imperfect Friendship

Walking on the sidewalk of Spokane, I read an email that made me stop still....

May 27, 2013

Watchmen and Dr. Manhattan’s Miracles

I came late to the DC Comic’s collected Watchmen, the groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan...

May 23, 2013

Why We Can’t Look Away

The morning I learned about the women in Cleveland, I knew from a single headline...

May 15, 2013

A Corporal Work of Mercy

I was nearly two weeks late, so I already knew the answer, but I took...

May 14, 2013

Deliver Us from Evil

Guest Post By Nancy Nordenson The day after the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school...

May 13, 2013

Two Tribes: Good Wishes and Good Works

One summer my family got evicted from the house we were renting in Florida. The...

May 10, 2013

A Theology of Singleness, Part 2

Guest Post By J. M. Samuelson Continued from yesterday. Alan Jacobs recently made a wise...

May 09, 2013

A Theology of Singleness, Part 1

Guest Post By J. M. Samuelson Publishers today are churning out self-help literature at ever-increasing...

May 08, 2013

The Marrow of Prayer

Early this year, Spanish researchers published a peer-reviewed paper considering the evidence of social learning...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Of Parsonages and Pirates

For Cathy Warner, Literary Editor of IMAGE Journal’s “Good Letters” Blog But Jesus called the...

April 11, 2013

Amour and Fear

Guest Post By David P. Clark, M.D. On the day I graduated from medical school...

April 09, 2013

She Will Not Live a Small Life

And all were guests. —Naomi Shihab Nye, “Arabic Coffee” The first thing that struck me...

April 08, 2013

More Poetry of Married Love

In a previous post, I used Richard Wilbur’s poem “for C” to talk about my...

April 05, 2013

The Moveable Feast of Memory

There are moments when you take stock of everyone and everything around you because you...

April 03, 2013

The Seed in the Grave

When the creamy, letter-press-printed wedding invitation arrived on a wintry February day, it seemed an...

April 02, 2013

Love Thy Neighbor…and Her Lice

Guest Post By Cathy Warner I’d only known her a month when Blythe called with...

April 01, 2013

If Necessary, Use Words

As a retort to the old saying that “a New Englander never uses ten words...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

How to Visit a Grave

Guest Post By Shannon Huffman Polson 1. Drive down unmarked road in rental car to...

March 22, 2013

The Pope, My Husband, and Me

“He blessed us.” Craig’s eyes twinkle, his mouth twitches. I recognize the man I fell...

March 21, 2013

The Heart, a Home under Construction

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have...

March 19, 2013

Seeking and Sought by God

I did not enter a church until I was in third grade. My friend Vicky,...

March 14, 2013

It Ain’t All Bluegrass, Blues, and Ribs

I know my limits. Though often I go on saying yes to this, yes to...

March 11, 2013

The Preacher’s Kid Returns

My sister my brother and I are right now, from three separate states, trying to...

March 06, 2013

Vengeance Isn’t Mine

Bring me a fountain pen dipped in blood! And the skin from his back for...

March 04, 2013

The Day My Parents Were Raptured

In the spring of 2002, my sister Alyssa and I left college behind for a...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

We Are All Immigrants

Several years ago I had the humbling honor of sharing my journey as a convert...

February 24, 2013

Living in a Border State

I spent elementary school in a Mexican neighborhood in Austin, Texas. I attended birthday parties...

February 18, 2013

A Matched Pair of Restraining Orders

Guest Post by Cathy Warner One Sunday during my first year of parish ministry, I...

February 15, 2013

A Father-Daughter Story

I sit in the sunroom and look at the strewn possessions of my youngest, my...

January 2013

January 09, 2013

Soul Friends

“One’s ‘spiritual life’ isn’t apart from the rest of one’s life, something that goes on...