“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

Last week, Diet Eman—whose incredible time in World War II as a member of the Dutch Resistance included rescuing Jews, gathering intelligence, and surviving stints

This morning I met with a large group of my university’s incoming first year students for an orientation session; tomorrow (as you are reading this),

Last week was Wendell Berry’s 85th birthday, so it seems like the right moment to feature a couple of poems from his large output. Berry

There’s an old book by Henry Zylstra, Testament of Vision, that contains a assertion that I come back to again and again: literature should give

Many of you are doubtlessly familiar with Mary Oliver’s “The Summer’s Day”–with its moving invitation to attentiveness and to relishing one’s “one wild and precious

I may have moved to a condo in recent years, but I still have a wonderful little hanging pot of tomatoes on my back deck.

I had the delight this past semester to teach a “gen ed” global literature class that I nicknamed “Epic Journeys.” That means we read lots

I’ve grown to love what has become a bit of a tradition for me: to post prayers from my dear friend, Jane Zwart, every time