Recklessly Grasping after Meaning: Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and the Yawning Jaws of Impatience
This essay explores issues of meaning and divine providence in the context of Mary Doria Russell’s THE SPARROW.
This essay explores issues of meaning and divine providence in the context of Mary Doria Russell’s THE SPARROW.
What could a worldly professor learn from a saint about dying as a means of living out a calling in Christ?
n this interview, Sister Helen Prejean of ‘Dead Man Walking’ fame tells about her fight to overturn the death penalty and save innocent men and women on death row.
This lapsed Catholic, lapsed Oregon native, is sometimes hungry for the ground. I pad my hand into the ashes of an old growth pine to paint a cross upon my forehead. Soft in my hand, a silken powder, there is dignity in the aroma of what these trees have become. Beside my hand print, I […]