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August 2018

August 29, 2018

Caves of Wonder

To reach the mouth of Mammoth Cave’s historic entrance, we made a short descent into...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Buried Treasure”

Literary reader of faith: I urge you now, as I’ve urged friends, students, and anyone...

February 12, 2018

The Liturgy of the Stars: Part 1

Growing up as I did amidst the dazzling lights of New York City, it is...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

The Optics of Illusion

Ross told the kids to stare at the splotchy red and blue picture and wait....

October 2017

October 17, 2017

Silent Mysteries

Lately, it seems, everyone is talking about silence—how they have less of it, how they...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Holmes, Help My Unbelief

There on my bookcase was a row of nine matching hardbacks. On their spines, a...

August 29, 2017

An All Too Ghostly Ghost Story: Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Four years ago, my wife and I moved into our red brick...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Practicing Presence, Part 1

The following two-part post was originally delivered as the 2017 commencement address for Trinity Academy...

June 16, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Prayer”

I used to collect poems that are prayers, so Sharon Cumberland’s “Prayer” immediately leapt out...

June 07, 2017

Cutting Down the Butterfly Garden

When we bought our new house, a jungle of weeds marked the front yard. I...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Mysteries Sherlock Holmes Can’t Solve

“No, you should definitely major in English,” I told our babysitter, a high-school senior from...

March 16, 2017

The Beauty Dialogues, Part 2

The following is a response to Morgan Meis’s letter posted yesterday. Dear Morgan: Thanks for...

March 03, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Ghazal: Woman at the Well”

I’ve always found the ghazal form intriguing. Its couplets, all discrete, are linked by a phrase...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Bewilder”

This is a poem about scale, about the awesome power of the Creator, who in...

December 2016

December 14, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 1

Interviewed by Nick Olson Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Recovery”

What I like about this poem is how it slides almost unnoticeably from a simple,...

July 2016

July 05, 2016

Adam Zagajewski’s Trench Warfare

“Writing poems is a duel / that no one wins…” As I’m reading the poem...

February 2016

February 02, 2016

The Erotic Powers of the Holy Spirit

My thirteen-year-old son had seen the Viagra commercials for years, but never understood what they...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Thou Shalt Not Kill Time: The Ethics of Storytelling

By Daniel Taylor Is The Great Gatsby a crime novel? (There’s a murder.) Crime and Punishment?...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Death Comes for the Deconstructionist: An Interview with Daniel Taylor

By Caitlin Mackenzie Daniel Taylor’s recent novel, Death Comes for the Deconstructionist, is a postmodern “whodunit”...

February 2015

February 02, 2015

Seeking Mystery in a Secular World

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

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Mystery and (Southern) Manners

It’s a chicken-and-egg kind of question I get all the time, but I don’t think...