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There is room enough in Christ for all of us.
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“The doctrine is an egg / in its shell / I can’t swallow / God . . . “
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“It’s weird how we erode. / In the valleys, shed pieces of me / fell from busy fingertips and mingled / with cracker crumbs, bacon bits, / stranded grains of...
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The truth is that some things will hurt and be difficult. The truth is that some questions will never be fully resolved. Part of a mature faith is...
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During my ex-boyfriend’s honeymoon, I sent him a dozen red roses, along with three singing telegrams, which I had delivered three days in a row. The girl paid to sing...
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To be pure, love must be authentic. This is much more than saying that love must be authentically felt. What I mean is that pure love must come...
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Had I simply refused to see it? Turned a blind eye out of conformity? Why, after decades in the church, did these things suddenly bother me?
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Let’s just get the Shrek connection out of the way. The strange inclusion of the song “Hallelujah” in the enormously successful 2001 animated film (that launched a million sequels) helped...
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. You know how we all imagine that ‘dog heaven’ will be a place where dogs get to do what dogs like, like ride in cars with their heads hanging...
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The year I turned four or five, we drove to my grandparents in central Wisconsin for Christmas. Actually, we did this for most years of my early childhood- until I...
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Dear Jack, I believe that one of the greatest gifts God has given us is our capacity to think for ourselves. If I do my best to understand a particular...
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In Paul’s 2nd epistle to Timothy, chapter 3, verses 14-17, we read this ringing endorsement of inspired writings: But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and has been...
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The following piece is a guest submission by Claudia Ruptier Ron liked dogs. He just didn’t want one—even after he’d been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment with likely progression...
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I asked a group with an empty chair if I could sit with them. A young man’s smile put me at ease and I settled in for lunch. I wasn’t...
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Forgiveness. As babies and young children, we can’t help but forgive those that wrong us. We have no choice…. we are too dependent. But somehow along the path to adulthood...
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I had my five year old daughter with me and I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t get her very interested in the bronzes. Then we turned the...
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I’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it hidden for many years, but when my wife finally catches...
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What would heaven be like, for a teenager?
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Read The Road only if you can handle the bittersweetness of life. Read The Road only if you can bear to carry the torch.
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As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up for what we believe in or do something because we...
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Although best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is his delightful “Smiles of a Summer Night.” Whether you watch...
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When you hear the words “Compassionate Service” what comes to mind? This is like one of those word association games- just go with your gut feeling. Macaroni and cheese? Sign...
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‘Zion’ has become a dirty word in our world: now it is shorthand for the displacement of native peoples from their homelands, and a justification for the flexing of military...
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For Jesse and Céline these questions are embodied in a single night and in each other. But the question of how we balance our passion, our need to continue living...
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An American man meets a French woman on a train in Europe. They connect and get off together in Vienna where they spend the night walking around the city and...
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By Claudia On my personal blog, I am known as “The Faithful Dissident.” For the past three years, I’ve been hiding behind that alias. Afraid of what, I’m not exactly...
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) shows us (to use David Lynch’s words:) people ‘in trouble’. Like Altman’s Short Cuts, the film revolves around the strangely interconnected lives of a number...
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This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of my purpose), but I’ve always read the parable of the...
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How much recompense can mythology – or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body – provide in the face of human yearning?
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A guest post from a reader, Debra. Names matter. They do. My life experience has taught me this. Names are important as they are references – signs — that direct...
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Valentine’s Day is for amore and what more perfectly embodies amore than a crush? Our friend Course Correction channels the sweet innocence and lasting, life-altering experience of that crushing moment....
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Legend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed by Roman emperor Claudius II who thought married men made...
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It sounds corny, but by carrying around her belongings (two pairs of sturdy shoes, a box of office supplies, a blanket, and a black garbage bag full of what I...
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[UPDATED] I am bound and cannot escape.
I live in shadows and mists along the edges of that magical world of my childhood; a realm where all of humanity is enslaved...
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“Don’t blame it all on the devil” seems a reasonable enough point for mature minds. Maybe too obvious a point? It’s tempting to take all of this at face value...
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Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good,...
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Personally, I’m a sucker for these lists. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of resisting them, even though they’re hardly ever revelatory.
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Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul laments Humbert Humbert. The recollection of Lolita draws Nabokov’s unreliable narrator far back in time as the middle-aged...
