Life of Faith
Ancestral blessings
I attended a talk by a pastor who begins services by asking, “Who do you bring into worship with you?”
More than eulogies
French rabbi Delphine Horvilleur reflects on 11 funerals to paint a vibrant picture of Jewish life.
Stretched between life’s verses
The future is scary: we simply don’t know, and it flies toward us anyway.
Lessons from the land of lake effect snow
Life can be as unpredictable as the weather in upstate New York. But God’s steadfast love endures forever.
Mourning prayer
The church’s old cork board reminded me that our heartbroken cries go directly to God.
Conspiracies of goodness
When I fear a dystopian future, I hold on to stories of everyday resistance.
Bone chapels and their strange art
In catacombs, crypts, and ossuaries, I’ve seen the ugliness of death transformed into something beautiful.
Healing from the ground up
In her memoir, Lore Ferguson Wilbert draws connections between her life and the forest‘s understory.
Bridging the ideological divide
It isn’t easy to lower the temperature of our political discourse. But there are people working to help us have better conversations.
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.
Being salt
When I got into cooking, it changed the way I understand Jesus’ statement, “You are the salt of the earth.”
Clarissa and her flowers
Reading The Hours in my husband’s hospital room, I was stunned by the novel’s incarnational imagery.
Dear God, you can do better
Two Episcopal priests tell God exactly how they feel about being seriously ill.
The heart of the humanities
In a culture that too often values people simply for their labor, learning for learning’s sake is its own good.
A different kind of poverty memoir
Dana Trent’s heartbreaking and hilarious book eschews the conventional American rags-to-riches arc.
The hope I’ve arrived at
I used to put a positive spin on everything. The effort didn’t serve my children—or my own heart.
A posture of hope
No, everything is not fine. But we can help each other envision a better way.
