How It Ends: Sister Emily Cooper, Graduations, and Graves
About two years ago, my wife and I mounted a six foot long white board on our office wall. We […]
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Everything We Need: A Holy Week Round Up
Okay. Take a deep breath. Holy Week is almost upon us and yet, no matter the planning that goes into
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Transforming Stranger Danger: Aelred, Spiritual Friendship, and the Online World
Don’t talk to strangers. Definitely don’t talk to strangers in chatrooms in 2003. These are the sorts of essential socializing
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Can You Flunk Advent? I Didn’t Mean To Find Out
On the far side of the room from where I sit most work days, I can see our Advent wall
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Unlocking History: A Note of Thanks to Dorothy Sayers
I am convinced that I grew up in a parish out of time. I know that many churches seem trapped
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Signs of Belonging: Remembering Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
Every family has its own private language. I don’t mean regional dialects or local pronunciations, but entirely unique inventions. Those
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The Reformation Continues: Jan Hus’s Legacy Today
Every Sunday as a child, I would stand between my mother and grandmother in our pew as my Lutheran parish—the
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No Justice, No Peace: Mechthild of Magdeburg and The Long Lineage of Protest Poetry
Poets say the strangest things. I first learned this when I became absolutely preoccupied by Emily Dickinson in the fourth
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Influencers, Not Intercessors: Following Saint Zita of Tuscany
If today’s young people are glued to their phones and iPads, I came of age alongside the internet. My family
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Narrative Arts: Maryam of Quidun, My Mother, and Me
We all have stories we tell about ourselves. As the oldest of three girls and the one I think my
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