10
Nov
Staying Alive, by David Wagoner
Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down
At first and deciding whether to wait for rescue,
3 min read
Joshua Lore
05
Oct
The Bricklayer, the Atheist, and David Foster Wallace
‘The myth, says Wallace, is that there’s even such a thing as Believer and Atheist, with where you happen
1 min read
09
Jun
Wrong Notes, by Charles Wright
To bring the night sky to life,
Strike a wrong note from time to time,
Half for the listening ear,
1 min read
05
Jun
Muhammad Ali and Vietnam
“I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting
1 min read
22
Apr
From Timothy Putnam’s The Sea of Grief and the Ship of Belief:
The grief doesn’t ever work itself out; it just hibernates for a while. And it only takes one misstep,
2 min read
21
Apr
From Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘The Prodigal Son Returns’:
‘Sometimes he would spend whole nights in tears beneath that starry dome, longing to be filled with such rays himself.
6 min read
26
Mar
Alan E. Lewis on the prayers of Holy Saturday
“Is not all prayer designed for Easter Saturday, the product of confusion, emptiness, and grief? Prayer is desperation translated into
2 min read
25
Mar
A second poem for Good Friday
If you had really wanted to be strong,
you would not have come from a woman’s womb.
For messiahs
1 min read
25
Mar
A poem for Good Friday
‘He told us we were free to choose
But, children as we were, we thought—
“Paternal Love will only use
1 min read
24
Mar
Rebecca Bratten Weiss on Holy Thursday and the carnivalesque
This is a simply wonderful article by my friend Rebecca Bratten Weiss on our final approach to Easter. I would
2 min read