Arts & Culture
A world with no boundaries
Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories of love and defiance escape the plane of realism.
Movement of the soul
Justin Peck’s choreography takes the language of ballet and turns it into something more.
A refugee’s fragmented memory
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s fractured and stirring memoir is haunted by war—and religion.
The buddy-cop feminist detective series I didn’t know I needed
Deadloch is one of the funniest, smartest, most unexpected delights I have watched in a long time.
A magical world of daily bread
In Luci Shaw’s new collection of poems, ordinary objects trespass their boundaries.
Good Friday, The Veneration
If desired, a wooden cross may now be brought into the church and placed in the sight of the people....
Holy Thursday,
The Stripping
The Stripping
The Celebrant returns to strip the Altar and chancel of all ornamentation, recalling the stripping of our Lord’s body at the crucifixion....
In praise of church musicians
Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.
Oluwaseyi Alade’s Pilate Washes His Hands
The gospel story of Jesus before Pilate has echoed down the centuries in numerous accounts of rulers and public officials who engage in wrongdoing and pass the blame to others....
Still Life with Sacred Heart
You haven’t started sketching but you’ve arranged the scene:
a broken loaf, a glass of noir, the pomegranate, bruised, crowned with a blackberry vine....