Anchors
Joe Martyn Ricke digs up the roots of love and family in simple memories of place.
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A Sense of Place: Flannery O’Connor and the Local Church
Flannery O’Connor insists that good fiction must be grounded in place; in this essay, Andrew W. E. Carlson discovers that the same can be said for church.
Feeding Bodies and the Theology of Taking Lives: An Interview with Norman Wirzba
According to the Gospel of John, when Jesus first appears after his resurrection he is mistaken for a gardener. He comes to Mary Magdalene, who is weeping at the empty tomb, and she asks him what has been done with Jesus’s body. But perhaps this case of mistaken identity tells us something about the character […]
Beauty on the Border
A reflection on the beauty of creation and redemption in the impoverished, agriculturally scarred towns along the Dominican Repulic and Haitian border.
Reading Keats in a Japanese Garden
A poem by Pamela Johnson Parker.