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September 2018

September 26, 2018

The Stars of the Earth Cry Out

Last night, as I walked on the road that leads me home, I saw a...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

Writing the Land and Its Story: An Interview with Paul Kingsnorth, Part 1

“It’s the End of the World as We Know It...and He Feels Fine”—that’s how the...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

In a Funk

You’re not sorry you’re alive, just embarrassed. Aware of the burden of your body. How...

January 2018

January 19, 2018

Poetry Friday: “Sometimes I Am Permitted”

On my first reading of this poem, I felt disoriented by all the non sequiturs,...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Name of God”

In Scripture, “the name of God” equals “the power of God.” Think of Jesus saying,...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Underwhelmed”

Put on your hiking books and grab your compass, magnifying glass, and shovel: this poem...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

As Petals Fall

“Why are you in the dirt?” he asked, trundling to where I crouched. “I’m pulling...

July 07, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Field”

I find solace in the natural world, in those precious moments alone, outside, away from...

June 2017

June 07, 2017

Cutting Down the Butterfly Garden

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

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Poetry Friday: “The Key”

I love this poem for its exuberance. The fat bee, “big as a blackberry,” bumping...

May 12, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Rain”

The emotional landscape of motherhood can often be hard to describe and is underrepresented in...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Sister Storm”

I love the drama of this poem. Its title recalls St. Francis’s “Canticle of Brother...

January 13, 2017

Poetry Friday: “Hail, Spirit” by Pattiann Rogers

Recently, I have been reading The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle with my 16-month...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Advent”

Of course you’ve heard of “El Niño.” And you know that it refers to the...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Hive Boxes” by Megan Snyder-Camp

The sounds in this poem! I love its compactness and humming—its slender shape on the...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Homily”

Last Sunday I was trying to decide whether to go church or take a walk...

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 21, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Sometimes I Am Permitted”

On my first reading of this poem, I felt disoriented by all the non sequiturs,...

July 08, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Again to Port Soderick”

To behold God’s creation and to praise it with language is this poem—and it is...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Odd Northern Indiana

Route 41 takes you along the coast of Lake Michigan out of Chicago. If you...

May 24, 2016

Purple Light in Sarajevo

My fellowship liaison, Sevko, drove, and his gaze flicked across teenagers spilling over the sidewalks....

May 20, 2016

Poetry Friday: “In the Beginning Was the Word” by Jeanne Murray Walker

I can't begin to count the number of poems which offer their language to re-imagining...

May 13, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Middle Distance, Morning” by Margaret Gibson

I read this poem as a meditation on how one can relate to the outside...

May 06, 2016

Poetry Friday: “The Moss Method” by Pattiann Rogers

I've long loved Pattiann Rogers' poems: how they caress nature's most minute details with acutely...

April 2016

April 13, 2016

Finding Another World in Winterkill

"There is another world, but it is in this one." —William Butler Yeats Reading Yeats's...

April 12, 2016

Charles of the Desert

By Rebecca A. Spears One early June, traveling to a wedding in San Diego, I’d...

April 04, 2016

Choose Life, North Carolina

This day, I call upon the heaven and the earth as witnesses: I have set...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

Peace, My Animal

"Benedic, anima mea," I say each night to the mouse that lives behind my desk....

November 2015

November 02, 2015

My Soul Thirsts

My children’s Michigan fact book says you can’t go more than eight miles without hitting...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Poets and Pope Embrace our Planet

Poets have no problem seeing the world evolving within God's care. Okay, that's too general...