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July 2018

July 07, 2018

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 2018

May 25, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Post-Miracle”

Ashley Wong’s poem “Post-Miracle” begins with empathy for the hard-hearted: “I understand now how the...

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,...

July 2017

July 11, 2017

The Case For Charlie Gard

Charlie Gard, the English child you see here, will likely die—indeed, by the time this...

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 24, 2017

Praying for a Hurricane on an Ordinary Wednesday Afternoon

“It is easier to survive a category five hurricane than it is to get through...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

My Bad Italy Novel

February is offseason in Rome, so today the city is a little gray, a little...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

The Nightingale Floors

In Kyoto, Japan, seventeenth-century Nijo Castle contains an architectural feature meant to protect the ruling...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Intercession: For My Daughter” by Brett Foster

We pass into this world at birth. We pass out of it at death. And...

September 2016

September 22, 2016

The Smell of Black Mold

By John Bryant I write in order that the ornery old bastard and toothless schizophrenic...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Impounded by Poetry

By Cathy Warner After one glass of wine, one poetry reading, and two hours, my...

April 2016

April 19, 2016

The Wounds of Resurrection

As my husband prepared for an Easter sermon a few weeks ago, our dinnertime conversations...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

A Space Program

The tenth item on a list entitled “How to Watch This Film,” which accompanies Tom Sachs' A...

December 2015

December 15, 2015

How to Win the War on Christmas

After thirteen years of parenting, my husband and I still know virtually nothing about raising...

October 2015

October 08, 2015

Brush With a Famous Writer

By Ann Conway I was walking down a concourse in the Philly airport when I...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Save the Economy: Read the Classics

I was reading Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si when I began an article called "What...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

A Requiem for Rejects

By Chad Thomas Johnston He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows,...

August 24, 2015

Where’s the Guilt?

I’ve had the experience of dealing with renters from time to time, though more in...

August 03, 2015

Original Sin and the Warp Effect

One of the great writers—to my recollection, Flannery O’Connor—said something to the effect that everything...

May 2015

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...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Fury: The Beautification of Violence?

Guest post by Christine A. Scheller I loathe violent movies. When my husband watches them...

August 2014

August 01, 2014

Eiseley, Darwin, and the Weird Portentous

Loren Eiseley was born in 1907. He died in 1977. For many years and until...