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February 2021

February 17, 2021

Yippee, It’s Lent. Again.

“Hey, Mom. Are you excited about Ash Wednesday?” This is my daughter, who gets excited...

February 27, 2020

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Catholicism: A Listicle with Apologies to Wallace Stevens

1. Inside you there are two wolves. One wolf is Catholicism; the other wolf...

January 2019

January 20, 2019

The Small Revolution of Mary Oliver’s Poetry

Sometime in 2016, a profusion of quotations by Mary Oliver flitted across my Facebook...

October 2018

October 17, 2018

The Important Thing

After The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown The important thing about stories is that they’re always...

February 2018

February 02, 2018

Dark Devotional: Demons

Art by the sinister and perhaps possessed Brian Jocks. When it was evening, after sunset,...

November 2017

November 05, 2017

Dark Devotional: The Book of Judith

White scar like thread runs up and down my wrist, not because I tried...

August 2017

August 10, 2017

Approaching Mystery: Late Night Deck Sentence in the Rain

Once I loved the world, or thought I did, I prayed every night, read parts...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Mary Karr: Trying to Say God

This post begins our series of features on the writers, musicians and artists who will...