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April 2018

April 23, 2018

A Sky of Parchment Made

Leaving work the other evening—a cold, blustery twilight that belied the spring it’s supposed to...

February 2017

February 08, 2017

Literacy Class: Learning the Language of Love

By D.L. Mayfield. This past week, I taught my last English class for quite some...

January 2017

January 06, 2017

Listening to Silence

I arrived at the advanced screening for Martin Scorsese’s new film, Silence, in the worst...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Poverty of Spirit” by Fleda Brown

“Blessed are the poor in spirit.” This beatitude has always puzzled me: what, I’ve wondered,...

October 10, 2016

Elegy for My Father

My father: Roy Franklin Harmon, Jr., M.D., passed away on September 22, 2016 at the...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

Morning Prayer and The New York Times

Summer morning routine: a cup of Awake tea, the Opinion page of The New York...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. How should we treat the poor? Among those who work on...

June 08, 2015

The Thing Itself: Art and Poverty, Part 1

The following is adapted from a presentation given at the Dominican School of Philosophy and...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Thinking About Poverty

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

February 2014

February 24, 2014

The Rich, the Poor, and Jesus

In November of 2013, Oxfam International released the results of a study that found an...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

Two Tribes: Good Wishes and Good Works

One summer my family got evicted from the house we were renting in Florida. The...

April 2013

April 02, 2013

Love Thy Neighbor…and Her Lice

Guest Post By Cathy Warner I’d only known her a month when Blythe called with...