September 6, 2018 / Creative Writing
Susan Carlson writes about death and beauty.
death
Michael Dean Clark
February 27, 2018 / Creative Writing
February 27, 2018 / Creative Writing
Michael Dean Clark explores the mistakes we make and opportunities we miss when we save our eulogies for the memorial service.
T. M. Lawson
April 17, 2017 / Creative Writing
April 17, 2017 / Creative Writing
In this poem by T. M. Lawson, a woman visits her mother in the hospital to say goodbye.
Brian Bantum
November 23, 2015 / Creative Writing
November 23, 2015 / Creative Writing
A young girl tries to escape a grief-stricken home only to find that home is where her she is known most fully.
Rebecca Welper
August 3, 2015 / Creative Writing
August 3, 2015 / Creative Writing
A poem about the life/death/life cycle of the seasons and those we love.
Zachary Thomas Settle
December 21, 2014 / Theology
December 21, 2014 / Theology
In death, we enter into the tomb on Friday with Jesus, and like the disciples on Saturday, all we can do is to wait in the darkness, hoping for the miracle we were promised on Sunday.
Tyler McCabe
March 20, 2014 / Creative Writing
March 20, 2014 / Creative Writing
Tyler McCabe grieves the death of his cousin and considers how the body conducts pain.
Robert Covolo
December 30, 2013 / Theology
December 30, 2013 / Theology
Alexander McQueen’s theatrical catwalks presented a conflicted sketch of a miraculous, transformed, and beautiful body consistent with what Charles Taylor has identified as the theologically haunted condition of late-modern Romanticism.
Chad Gusler
March 20, 2012 / Creative Writing
March 20, 2012 / Creative Writing
In the days when our courthouse was being built, a mason—we don’t know who—came to …