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July 2017

July 20, 2017

The Businessman’s Faith

One year ago, I abandoned the nonprofit and academic world to become a freelance copywriter,...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Finding My Sister in Young Adult Novels

Lately all I want to read are young adult novels about sisters. Young adult (YA)...

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 20, 2017

Inheriting Trauma

By Callie Feyen. Until a few months ago, I thought Aleppo, Syria was one word....

March 06, 2017

An Interview with George Saunders, Part 1

Beloved fiction writer George Saunders has long been known for his daring short stories, collected...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

An Interview with Newbery Medal-Winning Author Clare Vanderpool, Part 2

Clare Vanderpool, Newbery-Medal winning author of the novels Moon over Manifest (Delacorte, 2010) and Navigating...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

What My Kid Knew about Kubo

[Spoiler alert: This post is about the end of the movie, Kubo and the Two...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Purple Light in Sarajevo

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

October 2014

October 13, 2014

The Iron Cross: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 1

I didn’t know Julia well. The first time I saw her, she was sitting at...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Sorting Through the Past

I’ve been cleaning out an attic—not my own—along with drawers, closets, shelves, storehouses, and barns...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Recently I sang Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Seattle Symphony. In...

July 11, 2013

The Narratives We Need, Part 1

“Tell me a story,” my son has started to say after reading his bedtime books....

August 2012

August 14, 2012

Shaping the Heart

The following post is an edited version of the commencement address given at the graduation...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

Heading Home on the Back Roads

Today Good Letters welcomes back former blogger Dyana Herron as a regular contributor. Dyana is...

July 19, 2012

A Holy Habitation for Life’s Story

May the Lord bless thee out of Zion; and so shalt thou behold the good...

July 11, 2012

The Bleeding Woman: an Imagining

—This story was inspired by Mark 5:21-43, the gospel reading for Sunday, July 1. Twelve...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Who Needs to Read Anymore?

At the community college where I teach—actually in the state capitol two hours away—a massive...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

A Story More Durable Than Flesh and Stone

Yom Rishon (l’Shabbat): the first day toward the coming Shabbat: Sunday on the Gregorian calendar....