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October 2014

October 27, 2014

Riding the Waves

My sons argue over Avengers characters. The littlest insists he’s Captain America. Another claims Hawkeye....

October 16, 2014

Holding the Blade of Sacrifice

I had fallen asleep thinking about the Sacrifice of Isaac: The account, given in Genesis,...

September 2014

September 05, 2014

An American Girl’s Tale

Dave Ramsey, the millionaire evangelical Christian money coach who’s famous for telling his clients they...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

The Casserole Dish Manifesto

I possessed a consummate ideology before I had children. It was a perfectly distilled comprehension...

January 10, 2014

Each Woman Mary, Each Child Christ

I found respite recently in Jeanne Murray Walker’s essay on Alice Munro in Image, describing...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

An Almost Human Happiness

A typical plot complication on reality shows involves the unexpected twist, a challenge that the...

October 2013

October 01, 2013

New World

“There is no death, only a changing of worlds.” —Chief Seattle At night I lie...

September 2013

September 13, 2013

Chrysalis, Catacomb, Cloud Part 2

Guest Post Jen Hinst-White Continued from yesterday. Rob goes to bed; I go to...

September 12, 2013

Chrysalis, Catacomb, Cloud Part 1

Guest Post Jen Hinst-White How did I never notice before? An ultrasound room has all...

September 05, 2013

Isaac Unbound

Deborah* sat across the café table, cappuccino growing cold, tears brimming, lower lip trembling. “Jake’s...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The March on Washington: A Personal Anniversary

Guest Post By Christine A. Scheller “Many of our white brothers…have come to realize...

July 2013

July 09, 2013

A Baby Smaller Than Roosevelt’s Eye

Guest Post By Lindsey DeLoach Jones For most new parents, the first glimpse of the...

June 2013

June 05, 2013

Cathedrals of Consumption

Many years ago now, not long after I had been received into the Orthodox Church,...

May 2013

May 08, 2013

The Marrow of Prayer

Early this year, Spanish researchers published a peer-reviewed paper considering the evidence of social learning...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

A Father-Daughter Story

I sit in the sunroom and look at the strewn possessions of my youngest, my...

February 07, 2013

Becoming Both Daughter and Mother

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don’t know how strong we are until we...

November 2012

November 01, 2012

The Scatological Opportunist

Train up a child in the way he should go. Even when he is old...

October 2012

October 07, 2012

Eggs, Milk, and Maternal Instinct

When I saw my eye doctor recently for a potentially serious condition, she recommended that...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Raising Sons and Raising Men

This past Saturday, on a brilliant fall morning, my eight-year-old son came bounding downstairs for...

August 2012

August 15, 2012

Parenting 101

The latest fashionable parenting wisdom is that a parent’s wisdom doesn’t matter. Some public intellectuals...

July 2012

July 24, 2012

Conversation and (Self) Revelation

“Wonderful woman. Horrible children,” I overheard as I was leaving a store, right behind two...

July 03, 2012

Coming Home to Fatherhood

I recently saw a brief clip of a ten year-old girl in her classroom who...

June 2012

June 20, 2012

To See Her More Clearly

Growing up, my siblings and I were left on our own to figure out how...

June 05, 2012

My Kite Boy

I woke at one thirty with a start. My heart pounded in my ears. My...