-- The Courtesy of God - Garret Keizer, Lapham's Quarterly, Winter 2010 ( Read more... )

Not in a long time have I had to so forcefully and mercilessly interrogate my own motives for doing something as I have this past week. Doing this thing that I'm on the precipice of doing, that I will have officially started doing the night of June 5th, has forced me to realize that serious endeavors are the result of more than mere kink. ( Read more... )

The children ran through the pews as they do every Easter Sunday. I, my younger brother, and my youngest sister were seated in the balcony as choir members spilled through the upper level, all shouting "He's alive! He's alive ( Read more... )

-- Farewell to America - Gary Younge, The Guardian, Jul. 1, 2015 ( Read more... )

-- Has Fiction Lost Its Faith? - Paul Elie, New York Times, Dec. 19, 2012 ( Read more... )

-- The Trouble with Atheists: A Defence of Faith - Francis Spufford, The Guardian, 31 Aug. 2012 ( Read more... )

For the past few days, I'd been trying to figure out why exactly all this rapture talk on the internets was rubbing me the wrong way. And I thought maybe it was listening to Shinedown's acoustic cover of "Dirthouse" while reading Mystic River, a brilliantly depressing and depressingly brilliant novel. Then, I thought maybe it was post-school year ( Read more... )

If what we call the secular is the courtesy of God, religion is God’s concession to those of us who need an author. - Lapham's Quarterly

For the first time in about three weeks, I am going to bed on a full stomach ( Read more... )

That's one of the things I'm trying, this year especially, to learn from my mom. Her somehow bottomless faith. I don't mean the abstract faith that places God somewhere out there in the ether, floating like a benevolent, loving dictator over our existence. But faith in the immediacy of His hand ( Read more... )