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August 2017

August 31, 2017

Holmes, Help My Unbelief

There on my bookcase was a row of nine matching hardbacks. On their spines, a...

June 2017

June 13, 2017

Do Atheists Dream of Pearly Gates?

Yes even when I don’t believe there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief...

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Pascha, the Resurrection, and Ricky Gervais

Rays of midmorning sun shone through the window and fell in molten pools across the...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

When Art Disrupts Religion: An Interview with Philip Salim Francis

Just released by Oxford University Press, When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical...

April 25, 2017

This Place is an Altar

By Jason Bruner. Pastor David—strong, sincere, and confident in his pressed shirt and polished shoes—greets...

April 07, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Last Supper”

This poem is a meditation on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Last Supper.” But...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

The World at Midday

I spent Christmas Eve with my mom last month for the first time in years....

December 2016

December 14, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 1

Interviewed by Nick Olson Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

The Ghosts of Home

When I visit my family in northern Minnesota, I find myself on the same roads...

November 29, 2016

A Farmer’s Lament

Last weekend, I cooked lunch for three farmers. One of them was my husband. The...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Homily”

Last Sunday I was trying to decide whether to go church or take a walk...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

The Cult of Emotion

As a newish, struggling Christian recovering from two years in a fundamentalist youth group, I...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Pieces of Resistance

We've beat records for rain this year in central Minnesota. The sidewalks are pillowed with...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

The Cave of My Imagination

By Jason K. Friedman Ma’arat Ha-machpelah, the alliterative name sounded as magical to me as...

March 2016

March 28, 2016

Fairies and Mystics

On the first day of summer, my daughter created a makeshift microphone in the backyard...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Everyone’s Waiting for the Victory Song

Everyone knows what happened. Everyone lifts a steaming spoon of cinnamon oatmeal to their lips....

February 04, 2016

Kolam: The Beauty of Uselessness

This one’s for Carin Ruff, and by way of answering my niece Kate’s question. A...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

The Confessions of X: An Interview with Suzanne M. Wolfe, Part 2

By Gregory Wolfe and Suzanne M. Wolfe Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. GW: One of...

July 2014

July 24, 2014

God, Guilt, and Aronofsky’s Noah, Part 2

Yesterday I wrote about the film Noah and the believing soul’s ambivalence to God. Today...

March 2014

March 17, 2014

The Shroud of Turin

If you asked me about the Shroud of Turin, I could speak for hours. Before...

November 2013

November 05, 2013

What We Wish For, What We Think Is True, Part 2

Guest Post By Isaac Anderson Continued from yesterday. After we've gone our separate ways to...