Vegetables that are fearfully and wonderfully made
My friend left me his CSA share for two weeks. It changed the way I look at labor.
The midsummer of life
The season of tending and waiting can be tedious.
Feeling God in a modernist cathedral-in-progress
While other churches have filled me with wonder, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia brought tears to my eyes.
Movement of the soul
Justin Peck’s choreography takes the language of ballet and turns it into something more.
Caught up in the sweep of history
When I am troubled by the times in which we live, I turn to Óscar Romero.
The God-haunted music of Julien Baker
There’s a certain horror and heartbreak in God’s grace.
The brine of Christianity
I don’t go to church anymore, but the faith I was pickled in still shapes me.
The border is everywhere
For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi.
A busload of migrants were told something was waiting for them in Chicago
It was our job to be that something.
Knitting with Simone Weil
The philosopher’s call to attention reminds me I’m making a difference.
The Night Pastor
I recently came across a record by 1960s Episcopal priest and jazz musician Robert Owen.
Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life wasn’t made for times like these
But it has helped me to survive them.
Accompanying immigrants as they negotiate an unjust system
"It’s easy to think of the border as some remote, far-off place, but the truth is that there are detention centers in nearly every state."