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June 2018

June 12, 2018

I Am Not My Phone

How You Know It’s Time for a New Phone There was a moment when...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Mother’s House

Mother’s house is not a house. Mother’s house is not a cave. Mother’s house is...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Who Is This Aliveness I Am?

I am alive. I am alive. I am alive. Who is this aliveness I...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

Reading Love Nailed to the Doorpost

If you want to be submerged in the depths of Jewish spirituality, this is the...

June 05, 2017

On the 50th Anniversary of the Six-Day War

What I didn’t know in June of 1967 was that this month and year for...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

When Art Disrupts Religion: An Interview with Philip Salim Francis

Just released by Oxford University Press, When Art Disrupts Religion: Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical...

March 2017

March 02, 2017

I Am an American

I refresh the page, I refresh the page, I turn away for a few minutes,...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

The Power of Names

A few weeks back, the news related a story that a confederate veteran killed at...

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 29, 2016

Believing in the Beach Boys

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

March 23, 2016

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul, a prequel to AMC’s milestone series, Breaking Bad, further establishes co-creators Vince Gilligan...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Sonia Sanchez Made Me a Jewish Poet; Rhonda Magee Helped Make Me Whole

Black. Muslim. American. Woman. Poet. The languages she spoke. The ground on which she stood,...

October 19, 2015

Here at Last is Love: The Poems of Dunstan Thompson

I get tingly with anticipation when I'm about to meet a new poet. I don't...

October 09, 2015

Our Lady’s Football Team

Every Saturday morning in fall I wake up and feel a tinge of disappointment that...

July 2015

July 10, 2015

My Evolving Identity

I've just read a thirty-page article called "Whitman Music: The Problem of Adaptation." A...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Self-Hating Jew: A Love Story, Part 1

In response to “Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché,” a recent post of mine on Good...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

For the Love of Money

My husband and I took a spring break trip to the central coast of California,...

February 2015

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 03, 2015

The Power of Twelve

You won’t want to do it, but I’ll ask just the same: imagine being twelve...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

The Lost Girl Lets Go

There’s something about the midday nature of the appointment that gives it a furtive cast:...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Falling Upward: Don Draper Meets Richard Rohr

Guest Post By Cathy Warner The opening credits of Mad Men have always disturbed...

June 2013

June 11, 2013

The Mystery Inside Me

For the past nine months, I feel like I’ve been at a standstill. A place...