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May 2018

May 10, 2018

In the Presence of My Enemies

I eat a pretzel in the presence of my enemies. (They have assembled in Charlottesville.)...

May 24, 2017

Alleluia for the Easter Season

I used to find Easter a letdown. Lent is so full of the self-improvement activities...

April 2017

April 07, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Last Supper”

This poem is a meditation on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Last Supper.” But...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Afternoon Swim”

The play of grammar has always lured me. I’ve wondered: why do English sentences take...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Traveling Through These Days of Awe

I’m in a plane ascending to 37,000 feet. How restless have I been this year?...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Sitting Together: A Week at the Glen Workshop

I’m an introvert who loves to talk, an often confusing combination that can leave me...

March 2016

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?...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

By Allison Backous Troy May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt...

June 17, 2015

Wanted: God—Dead or Alive?

If you practice a religion faithfully—faith-fully—, why do you do this? And why is it...

June 15, 2015

His Murderer and His Keeper

Some days I can’t remember: Am I Abel or Cain? Blackberry soda in the afternoon...

June 12, 2015

Sunday Morning at Wegmans, Prince George’s County, Maryland

It is the Feast of Pentecost on the Eastern Orthodox calendar, the annual commemoration of...

June 04, 2015

A Place Where We Can Talk

By Brian Volck "Somewhere is better than anywhere." —Flannery O'Connor In my sophomore year of college,...

June 03, 2015

The Science and Sundayness of Play

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

June 02, 2015

The Beautiful Attitudes

By Dyana Herron I clearly remember the last day of being nine. I stood in...

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...

May 22, 2015

The Two Lists

Seven-year old Isaiah found a small desk in the back of our garage and claimed...

May 14, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Jan Vallone: You say that joy is the knowledge of the possession...

May 13, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 1

Spurred by both confusion and curiosity, I recently took a graduate course on contemporary spirituality...

May 04, 2015

Las Madres: Art and Death in the Arizona Desert

"The artist is a beggar because she is empty, waiting to be filled. But the...

May 01, 2015

Jesus and Legos in the Deep, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. “Judas the transgressor,” we Eastern Orthodox sing during Holy Friday Matins,“was unwilling...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Jesus and Legos in the Deep, Part 1

I read about a shipping container holding five million Lego pieces that fell into the...

April 27, 2015

Jesus: Here, There, and Everywhere

Gertrude Stein once said of her hometown, Oakland, California, where she was raised after having...

April 17, 2015

Jesus Through Poets’ Eyes

In my Catholic faith, Easter lasts for seven weeks, until Pentecost; so I'm not too...

April 15, 2015

Writing This Post Was on My Bucket List

I’ve never left North America, seen the Statue of Liberty, or dipped a toe in...

April 13, 2015

No Glory in Jericho

I was standing with a Palestinian Muslim and three Jews. Jericho. The ancient city. Some...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Is My Truth Your Truth?

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

November 2014

November 19, 2014

Trouble Called Again Last Night

Trouble called again last Thursday night. The number illuminated in the landline phone's small window....

June 2014

June 17, 2014

Inner Peace Part 2: Mirror and Furnace

Yesterday I traced the spirituality of a Zen Garden stroll, then of meditation based on...

June 16, 2014

Inner Peace Part 1: Zen Gardens

Zen gardens were all the rage when I installed a modified version in my backyard...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

The Bible as Icon

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