
Humanity Demands its Parentheses
The author stakes her claim, over and over again, through her defiant choice in favor of joy when joy happens to be there for the

The author stakes her claim, over and over again, through her defiant choice in favor of joy when joy happens to be there for the

At one point, Milt simply stops praying before meals. “The loss of Dad’s prayer voice,” Howard writes, “was an absence, like losing one of your

Editor’s note: This is another installment in our occasional series, “How do we come to be the ones we are?” My parents would have said

At a work meeting this week, our committee was discussing a niggling little matter that will need to be decided soon. As we talked amicably,

Editor’s Note: This is another entry in our continuing series that asks, “How do we come to be the ones we are?” “The Latin root

Editor’s Note: We continue our occasional series on “How do we come to be the ones we are?” with this reflection from April Fiet. I

Editor’s Note: A few months ago, the poet Thomas Lynch raised the question in our podcast: “How do we come to be the ones we

Over the past number of decades, there has been a turn towards an autobiographical approach in the field of Practical Theology. Practical theologian Heather Walton

I baptized my older daughter, Sarah, when she was three months old. She was not my first baptism, though she was among my first. I