Guest Post

To Keep a True Lent*

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) *From: Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter (Walden, New York: Plough Publishing House, 2003), a volume that I am delighted to recommend.Read More →

ICE On The Streets: Words From A Friend In the Twin Cities*

We have anti-ICE signs in our windows: “ICE OUT OF MN” and also “BE THE SALT – MELT ICE INTO THE GUTTER.” Two days ago an ICE vehicle stopped and took photos of the houses on our street that haveRead More →

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Notwithstanding All the Bad News: Who Doesn’t Want to Believe that the Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow?

“What has drawn the Modern World into being is a strange, almost occult yearning for the future. The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven…The future has been envisioned, dreamed, projected, painted for usRead More →

A white church against a blue sky with a leafy green tree arching over it on the right, there's also a lawn of green grass suggesting perhaps this is in the suburbs.

Let’s hear it for the suburban church!

I grew up as a member of a suburban Church. Never mind the sometimes trenchant criticism of such congregations over the years – recall Gibson Winter’s The Suburban Captivity of the Churches (1961) – I remain grateful for that experience. Read More →

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A Traditional Vision of Christmas Morning

“What shall I say to you; what shall I tell you? I behold a mother who has brought forth new life; I see a child come to this light by birth. The manner of his conception I cannot comprehend. NatureRead More →

Advent: Time to Face up to the Apocalypse of our Imperial Times?

“Historians describe the ecological devastation that accompanied the [Roman] empire’s economic and military practices. Some of its effects would be familiar to those who study the ecological dimensions of colonialism: ‘deforestation for new crops, water and air pollution from mining,Read More →

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More Than Spirituality? Practicing the Presence of God*

Guest Essay by Br. Curtis Almquist, Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, MA If the notion of a “spiritual practice” claims your attention, something meaningful is going on within you in your relationship to God. Something has awakened inRead More →

two adult hands (race unknown) digging in the dirt of a garden

Gardening and the Blessings of the Soil, Guest Essay by Norman Wirzba*

Gardening is one of the most vital practices for teaching people the art of creaturely life. With this art people are asked to slow down and calibrate their desires to meet the needs and potential of the plants and animalsRead More →