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March 2021

March 08, 2021

Things Keeping Us Going: Reading & Writing Edition

March is National Reading Month, so I figured we should have a totally lit (see...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to the Movies: Black Panther

This essay, "White Folks Need to Watch Black Panther," is republished with permission...

June 01, 2018

In My End is My Beginning – A Dark Devotional

Art by the stranded and purple Brian Jocks. I’m writing this in a tiny...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Approaching Mystery: Rebecca Bratten Weiss’s “The Oil Never Runs Out”

When I was nineteen, I returned from a summer of working on an organic wheat...

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 05, 2017

Dark Devotional: The Book of Judith

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

October 2017

October 26, 2017

Approaching Mystery: Rebecca Bratten Weiss Keeps On Dying

Here is a faded picture of two girls, one blond, the other brown-haired, dressed up...

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...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Things Keeping Us Alive, August ’17

There are only faint traces of Hurricane Harvey outside my window: Repetitive rainfall. Darkness uncommon...

June 2017

June 16, 2017

Trapped in the Nightmare: A Bloomsday Dark Devotional

June 16 is Bloomsday -- a special day for Irish literary geeks, on which fans...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

That Old Catholic Magic: Jacob Popcak Explains St. Patrick’s Day to Sick Pilgrim

We invited some Sick Pilgrims over to talk about one of our favorite saints, St...