Total dependence on others for my daily care stripped away ego and any sense of agency. I was immobile, unable to have a shower or

The God of Grampa’s living room was dour—though, to be fair, the light that poured in through the picture window—that illuminated the whole scene—had a

I suppose many attitudes surround people’s work. I can truly say that I enjoyed almost all the jobs I had. Even “humping” freight on the

Not long ago, I was part of a group from our church that accompanied Javier to the local office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

I was raised with a freedom to ask questions about my faith. I didn’t have the sort of fundamentalist baggage that I now discover many

While I grieved for the broken relationship between church and pastor, I was also excited about this opportunity for myself. After the initial three weeks

I remember vividly the day my death-denying illusions were shattered—it happened when I was a senior in high school. A friend had driven home from

“O Taste and See” was written two decades before Levertov would explicitly identify as a Christian, yet she already intuited that focusing on this world

Still, when I compare Old and New Testament lamenting, I can’t shake the sense that the coming of Jesus changed the role of lament for

There was a time in my career when the father of one of my students (in a different decade and a different state) requested a

All of us spend much of our lives constructing the protection we think we need to survive and thrive. These layers of defense work well

But Jeff wasn’t asking for a dissertation-level, academic deep dive on any of these claims. He was just curious about the general consensus out there