Of Stouts and Summa
A story of beer, big ideas, and bridging lonely divides. We sit around a coffee table on wooden pallets, sipping…
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The Mirror of a Child’s Heart
In children, our own hearts are often rent by seeing our greatest fears reflected in theirs. So, Jesus bids us to…
The Benedict Option: An Interview with Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher talks about Benedictine spirituality, the need for shared liturgy to build unshakable beliefs, and how to break…
Music Is Breathing: An Interview with Composer Ola Gjeilo
Renowned composer Ola Gjeilo expounds on his creativity, from his inspiring improvisation to his carefully selected lyrics. Ola Gjeilo is…
Get up and Dance
Dance is, at it’s heart, a joyful embrace of reality. Drums pound, lightly and slowly at first, drawing us onto…
Treating Study as a Real Job
Simply put, being a student is very much like a job. Fortunately, I landed my first full-time position only three…
Why Community Needs Music
In communities that sing, you can hear sacrifice (and unity) in action. At my husband’s big 30th birthday party, we…
How Marriage Has Brought Back the Word Sin
How learning to walk in the ways of God helps us practice walking away from sin.
A Long Winter and the Discipline of Hope
How can hope guide us through winter? Here in Wisconsin, the winter is long. We get our first snow around…
My Taste of Homelessness
What travel taught me about humanity and humility. When I tell you I spent a year studying abroad on the French…
The Shared Work of Snow
Shoveling snow may not be just a duty; it may build your village. Snow’s all right on a fine morning, but I…
A Reality of Refugees
The challenges of loving your neighbor amid fear and the unknown. I should have acknowledged a long time ago that the…
Hope in the Darkness
Kristen Sosebee: “And my Hope was born — amidst the work of surrendering and striving and letting go and holding…
How to Promote Healthy Play in Your Home
A solution for post-Christmas boredom. Having two toddlers made this Christmas my favorite of all. There is no substitute for the…
Gardening 101 is Prayer 101
Bart Price on how basic gardening can deepen our prayer lives…
Dry Bones in the Desert
The desert is indeed the place of painful reckoning, but it also a place of illumination…
Search engines and the pursuit of true adventure
Adventure requires an embodied engagement with the unknown. One morning last fall I woke up in a new world. The…
Recognizing the Babe as Christ
From Epiphany to Lent, how do we see Jesus in Ordinary Time?
Reconnecting Faith and the Arts in D.C.
“Art educates our emotions and imagination. It awakens, enlarges, and refines our humanity. Remove it, dilute it, or pervert it,…
To Arrive Where We Began
“For when we have come to the end of a thing we have come to the beginning of it.” G….