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February 2018

February 21, 2018

Approaching Mystery: Who’s That Girl by Jessica Mesman Griffith

My trauma therapist warns me that my worst memories might surface later, outside of his...

December 2017

December 06, 2017

Approaching Mystery: Joanna Penn Cooper Stares into a Puddle

“Think, dear sir, of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking what...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Approaching Mystery: Jessica Mesman Griffith Peers at St. Agnes

As we approach the solstice, I am thinking about the truth and beauty found in...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

How Blogs Hurt (and Help) the Catholic Church–especially Catholic Women

I’m a voracious reader of religion journalism and theology, but I’m not a journalist...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Things Keeping Us Alive in July: The Trying to Say God Conference

Every month here at Sick Pilgrim, we like to bring you a feature we call...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Trying to Say God (as artists)

A few years ago, Kaya Oakes wrote in America Magazine that "Catholic literary culture today...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

Sick Pilgrim Now Has Two Things in Common with the Pope

1. We're Catholic. 2. We share a publisher. We're writing a book for Loyola Press,...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

Entering the Story: The Imaginative Power of Traditional Worship

When my friend Amy converted to Catholicism ten years ago, she wrote me a letter confessing that she...

March 02, 2016

My Top Spiritual Books: Jessica Mesman Griffith

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me." --Flannery O'Connor This...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

The Dark Devotional: Third Sunday of Lent: Burned, but not Consumed

A Reading from the Book of Exodus. There an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses...

February 23, 2016

Wayfarers All: The Gifts of an Unsettled Life

There’s a chapter in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows called “Wayfarers All.” I remembered...