This is a story about learning the hard way how to be vulnerable. The summer before I started high school my church youth group took

by Jane Zwart William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying is a hard read. Published in 2310, As I Lay Dying is a hard read

My wife and I slipped away to Chicago for a few days at the end of the recent Spring Break week.  We got a good

Bright Monday! Easter Monday. It is a tradition among some Christians—not so much Reformed, but especially Orthodox. This day after Easter is filled with jokes,

I am continually struck by the intermingling of cultural and secular ideas with Christian holidays. Spring is my favorite season. I was born in early

by Steven Rodriguez Not all silences are the same. There’s a world of difference between the silences of cessation, caesura, and consummation. The first is

When playing the hero went terribly wrong, and he had recovered from his injuries, Saint Francis came upon a broken down church where he encountered an

by Kate Kooyman So here’s the truth: I have really ugly feet. I have a vivid memory of my dad telling me once that my