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July 2018

July 26, 2018

Rubble and Re-Creation

In the beginning, when God was creating the heavens and the earth, the earth was...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Manifest, by Reason of Birth”

Throughout her poetry, Pattiann Rogers observes and describes the natural world with profound detail, compassion,...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Name of God”

In Scripture, “the name of God” equals “the power of God.” Think of Jesus saying,...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

Painting Brings the Ancestors Around

On a November evening last year, I walked to my rosemaling class and sat around...

September 18, 2017

Parenting by Politics

The moment is freeze-framed in my mind: My eldest, Milo, red-faced with anger, his eyes...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Brunelleschi’s Balancing Act

The story goes that one day Filippo Brunelleschi, the goldsmith who would go on to...

April 05, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 4

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: I’m enjoying...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Recovery”

What I like about this poem is how it slides almost unnoticeably from a simple,...

July 2016

July 08, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Again to Port Soderick”

To behold God’s creation and to praise it with language is this poem—and it is...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

The Dragon and the Yahrzeit Candle: On Forgetting and Remembering, Part 3

Continued from yesterday and Tuesday. In Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape,...

June 13, 2016

Eden at the Indy 500

I managed to live in Indiana for forty years before visiting the Indianapolis 500. A...

June 09, 2016

The Best Conditions for Work

For William Carlos Williams I work best alone. In an empty house. When I’m ready...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Purple Light in Sarajevo

My fellowship liaison, Sevko, drove, and his gaze flicked across teenagers spilling over the sidewalks....

May 20, 2016

Poetry Friday: “In the Beginning Was the Word” by Jeanne Murray Walker

I can't begin to count the number of poems which offer their language to re-imagining...

May 09, 2016

Thin Places, Part 1

A few summers ago, my husband Tom and I were in Dublin for a week,...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Poetry Friday: “When God Dreamed Eve through Adam” by Richard Chess

The Genesis story of the creation of Adam and Eve: poets for centuries have been...

April 01, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Creed in the Santa Ana Winds” by Bronwen Butter Newcott

Growing up in southern California, I experienced the uneasy allure of the Santa Ana’s hot...

October 2015

October 02, 2015

Wonder Woman, Flying, Part 2: Beauty and Sacrament

Continued from yesterday. In this scene from Batman’s first meeting with Wonder Woman in Trinity,...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

When It Comes to Love, We’re Beginners

By Jeffrey Overstreet During a lecture last March [2011], I spoke fondly of a friend...

February 2015

February 10, 2015

Living With Darwin

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Rubble and Re-Creation

“Good Letters” is pleased today to welcome Chris Hoke as a regular contributor. In the...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

The Creationist Crisis Reprise

Several months ago I blogged about the Ken Ham Bill Nye debate at Liberty University....

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Crying Ocean

Guest post by Natalie Vestin In Judith Kitchen’s essay “Direction,” she writes of traveling with...