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March 2015

March 09, 2015

Sojourners in the Darkness

My mother, an uneducated woman in her sixties, said she would ask [his murderer] to...

March 06, 2015

God in the Godforsaken Places

I live in the shadows of Washington, D.C. It’s a big place and said to...

March 04, 2015

Remember You Are Dust

There is no greater materialist than a Christian observing Lent. You get ashes smeared on...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

The Courage of Men

By Suzanne M. Wolfe Twenty one men dressed in orange jump-suits are kneeling in a...

February 23, 2015

The Tenth Leper

Guest post by Kelly Foster If you grow up in the South, you learn to...

February 20, 2015

Back to the Drawing Board

To say I can't draw myself out of a cardboard box is to assume I...

February 13, 2015

Monasticism In Lockdown America, Part 5: Holy Elders

With their white beards and deep lines in their faces, the older men stand out...

February 06, 2015

My God Is Better Than Yours

What a miracle! They had been freed, the Israelites, from Egypt, but moments after they...

February 02, 2015

Seeking Mystery in a Secular World

The topic, at the Eighth Day Institute symposium in Wichita, Kansas, was how to regain...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The House Where Beauty Lives

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe...

January 26, 2015

Is My Truth Your Truth?

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of...

January 23, 2015

American Idol: A Guide for Hearing God’s Voice, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. While many desires prompt goodness, others trigger evil and thus can’t be...

January 22, 2015

American Idol: A Guide for Hearing God’s Voice, Part 1

I love American Idol and could hardly wait until this month when the fourteenth season...

November 2014

November 26, 2014

Death and the Absurdity of Heaven

I remember, as an undergraduate, reading Spinoza for the first time. I came across the...

November 13, 2014

Epic Tales: an Interview with Amit Majmudar, part 2

Guest post by Sarah Arthur Continued from yesterday. SA: In your essay “Me and the...

November 06, 2014

The Photographic Eye of God

He called himself Weegee The Famous. Weegee, for short. His real name was Arthur Fellig....

November 05, 2014

My Big Bang Theory

Guest post by Cathy Warner I awoke one morning from a recurrent nightmare of nuclear...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

The Trouble with Time

They talk. They talk to. They talk about. God. Please, God. Dear God. Thank you,...

October 15, 2014

Smelling a Rat

Guest post by Suzanne M. Wolfe About a year ago I felt an overpowering urge...

August 2014

August 20, 2014

The Weary Lion and the Wary Lamb

Author’s note: Like many Jews around the world, I've been following the news out of...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

God, Guilt, and Aronofsky’s Noah, Part 1

As it has become too expensive for our family of five to go to the...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Only God is an Atheist, Part 2

It was not out of sheer flattery that Thomas Merton compared Flannery O’Connor to Sophocles,...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Fast-Food Funeral Procession

The line lurched forward one vehicle at a time, halogen halos radiating from headlights. Although...

August 09, 2013

The Bible as Icon

For Vic Sizemore With six children in a Southern Baptist family in the 1970s, we...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

What Came Before Numbering Our Days?

What came before “there was evening and there was morning, a first day,” and “there...

July 18, 2013

Camping with God

The exodus (small “e”) was a family of five fleeing the New York summer in...

July 10, 2013

Smiling Skulls: On Death and Diversion

With sinister skulls on their black Metallica and Megadeth T-shirts, the teenagers who snaked alongside...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

The Fragrance of the Unknown, Part 2

Continued from yesterday From my mindfulness meditation practice, I’ve learned the value of looking closely...

June 26, 2013

The Fragrance of the Unknown, Part 1

With less than two days before the retreat began, and only a grain of time...

June 10, 2013

Wiman and Words

At “Good Letters,” words are what we work with. Of course, this is true of...