Dennis Vannatta

Fortunate Fall

Dennis Vannatta tells a story about confronting one’s past—and then one’s future.

Katherine James

Being Pretty

Katherine James contemplates the fleetingness of beauty as she faces cancer and aging.

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Chelle Stearns, Shelly Rambo

The Spirit’s Witness: An Interview with Shelly Rambo

Christian theologies of suffering often move too quickly to redemption, but in this interview with Shelly Rambo, she advocates a theology that remains in the ambiguous middle space between life and death, bearing witness to how trauma lingers in human experience.

Rebecca Welper

Magnolia

A poem about the life/death/life cycle of the seasons and those we love.

David Jacobsen

Until an End Is Made

Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.

Matt Jantzen

Eric Gregory, John Milbank, and the Future of Augustinian Engagements with Liberalism

Intellectual traditions are dynamic entities. They grow and change over time. In fact, if Alasdair MacIntyre is correct that a tradition is “an historically extended, socially embodied argument, and an argument precisely in part about the goods which constitute that tradition,” then this dynamism is perhaps the distinctive characteristic of tradition-as-such.[1] Thus, precisely because traditions […]

Tyler McCabe

Painlove

Tyler McCabe grieves the death of his cousin and considers how the body conducts pain.