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March 2015

March 27, 2015

Dollar Store Evangelism

Because I enjoy the finer things in life, I ran into Dollar Tree the other...

March 16, 2015

Grace and the Incomplete Flush

Almost two years ago my husband and I bought a condo in a cool old...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

The Tenth Leper

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

February 18, 2015

The Sex Offender and the Cross

Guest post by Paul Luikart One day the girl I loved called me up—out of...

February 11, 2015

Hazel Motes Is Out of Time

TCM broadcast John Huston’s film version of Wise Blood yesterday, and I wound up watching...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Where Is the Light in Our Darkness?

For most kids I knew, Christmas was a time of anticipation. Even if you hadn’t...

December 18, 2014

Thinking About Poverty

What better time than Advent to ponder what poverty means? After all, Christ became poor...

December 03, 2014

Angel Trades a Shotgun for a Shovel: An Interview with Terry Scott Taylor, Part 1

Guest Post by Chad Thomas Johnston Most bands with lifespans of forty years or more...

December 02, 2014

Madonna and Child

The entrance makes all the difference. I recently watched the opening of a Madonna concert,...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

Seeing and Being the Face of Christ

The Catholic church I attend is lovely. A wine brick building with a copper steeple...

November 12, 2014

Epic Tales: an Interview with Amit Majmudar, part 1

Guest post by Sarah Arthur To call Amit Majmudar a poet doesn’t express the range...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

The Mill and the Cross

In Breughel’s panoramic painting, “The Procession to Calvary,” the fallen Savior, collapsed under the cross beam,...

August 20, 2013

Yeshua Ha’Mashiach

In drafting my last post, “Orthodox Films Fill the Void,” I intended to end the...

May 2013

May 07, 2013

Emerging from the Tomb Intact

There’s a moment in Anna Karenina in which a frustrated Anna turns to her husband....

April 2013

April 19, 2013

The Eucharist: Eat, Eat!

Good Letters welcomes Shannon Huffman Polson to our blogging team. Her memoir North of Hope:...

April 17, 2013

Mother of Sorrows: Colm Toibin’s Testament of Mary

Good Letters welcomes back former blogger Jessica Mesman Griffith, author of the new book Love...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

Can I Offer Up My Suffering?

“Pain is an evil, suffering is an evil. We mustn’t desire it. We don’t desire...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

The Fool and the Beloved: Part One

Guest Post By Stuart Scadron-Wattles I recently gave a guest lecture for a graduate...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

King of Kings and Showrunner of Showrunners

With the fall season of primetime television underway, the knives are out and the chopping...