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May 2018

May 17, 2018

Monasticism in Lockdown America: Part 1, Cloister

The gentlemen I’ve been visiting in my local jail for the past decade live a...

October 2017

October 06, 2017

Poetry Friday: “A True Story”

In the aftermath of three large hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, and Maria) the news has been...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

The Beautiful Boy

It’s barely even summer and already, in our house it is the Summer of the...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Tweeting my Theology

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

May 02, 2017

Endurance Test

By Matt Newcomb. My father held the wall to work his way from the bed...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

Finding My Inner Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane lumbered around Deadwood in fringed buckskins, spitting, cursing, and waving her whiskey flask...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Sugar, Sugar, Part 2: May 8, 2015

Continued from yesterday. When the editors of Good Letters first asked if they could rerun...

May 07, 2015

Sugar, Sugar, Part 1: June 10, 2011

I’ve written before about my father’s alcoholism. From my adolescence until his death, I spent...

January 2015

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,”...