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May 2015

May 15, 2015

Go Ahead and Have the Damn Children!

I was working from home a few days ago, on a day when both of...

May 06, 2015

My Rainbow Connection, Disconnected

By Chad Thomas Johnston It was a Saturday night and my wife, Becki, wanted to...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Fever

By Dyana Herron When well, it’s easy to forget how utterly miserable it feels to...

April 20, 2015

My Mother, My Daughter, Myself

My daughter Anna Maria was born on Orthodox Easter Sunday—Pascha—six years ago. That year, the...

April 14, 2015

Who Needs to Read Anymore?

At the community college where I teach—actually in the state capitol two hours away—a massive...

March 2015

March 18, 2015

Soft Hearts and Thin Skin

Recently I found myself engaged in another maddening conversation with my four-year old daughter. We...

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...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Where Is the Light in Our Darkness?

For most kids I knew, Christmas was a time of anticipation. Even if you hadn’t...

October 2014

October 27, 2014

Riding the Waves

My sons argue over Avengers characters. The littlest insists he’s Captain America. Another claims Hawkeye....

October 23, 2014

Raising Kids in the Creation/Evolution Divide, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. At the time of our children’s young-earth themed Vacation Bible School, I...

October 22, 2014

Raising Kids in the Creation/Evolution Divide, Part 1

Two summers ago,my husband Jeremy and I decided to cancel our family’s cross-country road trip...

September 2014

September 12, 2014

The Machinery of Cowardice Fails the Children of Rotherham

My children once heard someone address me as “Doctor,” and so they asked me if...

August 2014

August 06, 2014

He Fits Right In: Our Story of Open Adoption

I’ve tried to stop policing adoption language, no matter how much phrases like “real mom,”...

July 2014

July 18, 2014

Caught in the Crosshairs: the Children at Our Border

I write this on a Sunday, when people who spent the week shouting at busloads...

April 2014

April 02, 2014

Against Gratitude

The other day a Facebook friend linked to a blog post on fifteen ways to...

January 2014

January 10, 2014

Each Woman Mary, Each Child Christ

I found respite recently in Jeanne Murray Walker’s essay on Alice Munro in Image, describing...

September 2013

September 04, 2013

Today’s Child Sacrifice

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

July 2013

July 16, 2013

Holy Water

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

July 09, 2013

A Baby Smaller Than Roosevelt’s Eye

Guest Post By Lindsey DeLoach Jones For most new parents, the first glimpse of the...

June 2013

June 03, 2013

Spared not Blessed

In the West we have forgotten how the world devours children because mostly when our...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

A Corporal Work of Mercy

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

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 19, 2013

The Eucharist: Eat, Eat!

Good Letters welcomes Shannon Huffman Polson to our blogging team. Her memoir North of Hope:...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

We Are Not Forsaken

My daughter’s teeth were clenched from the brain tumor and so I would hold her...

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...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

A Father-Daughter Story

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

February 07, 2013

Becoming Both Daughter and Mother

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong we are until we...

November 2012

November 01, 2012

The Scatological Opportunist

Train up a child in the way he should go. Even when he is old...

October 2012

October 11, 2012

Blessed Are the Tentmakers

For my daughter, Evangeline Sofia, who celebrated her first birthday on the second day of...