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April 2016

April 12, 2016

Charles of the Desert

By Rebecca A. Spears One early June, traveling to a wedding in San Diego, I’d...

April 07, 2016

Imitating the Saints

St. Therese once wished aloud that her own mother would die. When her mother scolded...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Wedding: Part 1

By Danielle Leshaw Father Bill offered a set of instructions. “Walk beside me, never on...

March 29, 2016

Believing in the Beach Boys

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

March 28, 2016

Fairies and Mystics

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

March 18, 2016

Dancing on the Way to Prison

By John Bryant I’m standing in a circle with thirty singing and swaying old men...

March 17, 2016

Changing Positions: A Meditation for Campaign Season

(With help from Donovan, D. T. Suzuki, Qingyuan Weixin, Wallace Stevens, democracy, REM, Bonnie Raitt,...

March 16, 2016

What Happened to Fun?

I was so good, and for such a long time, two weeks at least of...

March 14, 2016

The Living Among the Dead

Thanksgiving Day after I turned four: high fever at dinner, a drive through a blizzard,...

March 11, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Meditation on the Evangelista” by Karen An-Hwei Lee

What if God turned up at your door in the form of a brush salesman?...

March 10, 2016

Praying the Rosary

By Laura Bramon My first rosary is invisible: a string of children’s voices ricocheting off...

March 04, 2016

Learning Poetry, Unlearning God

By Natasha Oladokun In my sophomore year of college, I wrote a poem. Though I...

March 03, 2016

My Sh’ma

By Judy Bolton-Fasman Sh’ma yisrael Adonai Elohanu Adonai echad—Hear O’ Israel the Lord is God,...

March 02, 2016

Good Enough to Tweet

If you go to any restaurant nowadays, you’ll likely see something that at one time...

March 01, 2016

So Much for the American Dream

My six-year-old son caught me off guard. “I wish we had a backyard,” he said...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Love Your Enemies for Lent

Another campaign season is upon us with a vengeance. Actually it's campaign seasons—since the U.S....

February 09, 2016

Honey, Let’s Get Tattoos: Tattoos and Embodiment

Continued from a previous post. Read part 1 here. After my wife Katie and I...

February 01, 2016

How Much God Loves Us

By John Bryant He was born with cerebral palsy and he has it all the...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Listening to Simone

By Christiana N. Peterson The woman stands in the entryway of our common building just...

January 11, 2016

Sign-Seeking in the Dark

January is for sleeplessness. Maybe its cause is the temperature inversion that presses pollution down...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

God is Sacrificial Love

If God is love, as we’re told, then what kind of love is he? In...

December 10, 2015

Waiting for the Blessing

By Lisa Ampleman On Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday of Advent, my church blesses expectant...

December 07, 2015

After a Thanksgiving Feast

I carry my failure with me. My embarrassment. My shame. It grows. It sets me...

December 02, 2015

Here is Where We Wait

This summer, I climbed the rotting steps to the hayloft of my family's barn to...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Saying the Name of God

Recently, I spent a good part of three weeks promoting an event that my parish...

November 24, 2015

The Tyrannical Self-Gaze

I'm doing most of my walking after dark these days as night comes a little...

November 18, 2015

Christian Kerfuffles, Taking Offense, and the Poetry of Li-Young Lee

In late October, I had the privilege of teaching two workshops at the Indiana Faith...

November 02, 2015

My Soul Thirsts

My children’s Michigan fact book says you can’t go more than eight miles without hitting...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Hamster Hospice: Caring for God’s Tiny Creatures

For my son, Alex In the final months before our hamster died, I would lie...

October 22, 2015

Blessed Are the Tentmakers

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