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July 2017

July 20, 2017

The Businessman’s Faith

One year ago, I abandoned the nonprofit and academic world to become a freelance copywriter,...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Tweeting my Theology

When I went to seminary, there was concern. Friends whispered. Had I gone rogue? Or...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 1

By Jeffrey Overstreet. So, why Chariots of Fire? Why is that what I chose for...

January 19, 2017

Now is the Time to Read The Man in the High Castle

Imagine an alternate history in which a regime arose in the United States that believed...

January 12, 2017

Making Contact: A Christian-Atheist Friendship, Part 2

An introduction: Decades ago, in the faraway land of Orange County, California, two young women...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Risen

In a well-written and well-acted scene from Kevin Reynolds and Paul Aiello’s recent film, Risen,...

July 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “I Am Poured Out Like Water”

What attracts me to this poem is something deliberately absent yet evocatively present: baptism in...

April 2016

April 11, 2016

A Strange Season for Inter-Christian Families

American culture, at this late and plural hour, seems to have pretty well normalized the...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Believing in the Beach Boys

The first church I attended as a teenaged new believer swiftly taught me two doctrines:...

March 15, 2016

Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry

The Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) is obviously not a religious institution. But damn if...

December 2015

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...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Exile Among Exiles

My children attend public middle and high school; hence the school year always begins with...

June 2015

June 29, 2015

Learning to Pray

Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything. —Abba Moses The...

June 26, 2015

Divine Drudgery

Two weeks after we moved to the Mennonite community in rural Illinois, a baby was...

June 19, 2015

Is the Gospel Good News or Bad?

Continuing a little bit what I started with my essay “What Is a Christian?,” I’ve...

June 18, 2015

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

By Allison Backous Troy May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt...

June 09, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. How should we treat the poor? Among those who work on...

June 08, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 1

The following is adapted from a presentation given at the Dominican School of Philosophy and...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Triple Scoop

By Jessica Mesman Griffith My best friend died suddenly almost two years ago. She’d lived...

May 28, 2015

What Is a Christian?

According to recent survey by the Pew Research Center, the number of U.S. adults who...

May 27, 2015

What Cannot Be Fixed

I remember the time when "entropy" was all the rage. It must have been in...

May 20, 2015

Monasticism in Lockdown America, Part 9: Psalms, In the End

Continued from yesterday. Thinking of the psalms as a way to cycle through the...

May 19, 2015

Monasticism in Lockdown America, Part 8: Psalms, In the Beginning

I always privately hated the psalms. Most of them, anyway. As a teenager, I’d leaf...

May 14, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Jan Vallone: You say that joy is the knowledge of the possession...

May 13, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 1

Spurred by both confusion and curiosity, I recently took a graduate course on contemporary spirituality...

May 01, 2015

Jesus and Legos in the Deep, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. “Judas the transgressor,” we Eastern Orthodox sing during Holy Friday Matins,“was unwilling...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

What Will Pass for Mercy

By Brian Volck “Do not say God is just. Justice has not been evident in...

April 17, 2015

Jesus Through Poets’ Eyes

In my Catholic faith, Easter lasts for seven weeks, until Pentecost; so I'm not too...

April 10, 2015

Prayer in Five Parts

“Prayer…is always available to us.” –St. Seraphim of Sarov I I sit atop my red...

April 03, 2015

It Is Finished: Christ’s Words from the Cross

When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And bowing his head,...