Candles Are for Darkness
Kirstie Joy Schierkolk reminds us to carry the Light of the World into the darkness this Advent.
The Isolation of Aging
What “developments” mean for you as you get older. A couple of months ago, I was leaving the store about…
Lessons Learned in a Tire Shop
What guides a successful career sometimes comes from sweat and tire jacks. For the last 31 years I have taught the canonic…
Can I Be Creative and Married?
A look into how you can be happily married and still be creative. That morning I had read John Kenney’s depressing…
Worm Wrangling and the Good Life
A Laramie entrepreneur’s life is enriched by agriculture. Erika Babbitt-Rogers carefully maneuvers the truck down the rutted road leading to…
Of Stouts and Summa
A story of beer, big ideas, and bridging lonely divides. We sit around a coffee table on wooden pallets, sipping…
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…
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…
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…
Cultivating a Calling
“What if you think you have a calling in life, but you’re just not good at it?” Dr Molloy bent…
Heavy Metal, Tradition, and the Good Life
A series on the paradox of modernity’s loudest critics. Heavy metal music, especially extreme metal, is frowned upon among many…
Getting Back to What Really Matters
Finding peace post-election.
Out of Loss, Rediscovering a Giant
And what it means to be a warrior. Last October I was forced to confront that cold reality we face…
At Play in a Broken World
“Play” in its best sense never means a deadening distraction from the world, but a fuller engagement with it.
Renaissance is on the Move
Ethan Pyle: All things in nature point to the grand redemption story of new life through death.