Joanna Manning

Finding Stillness

Joanna Manning discovers the peaceful center to grief.

Michael Dean Clark

Eulogies for Those Who Haven’t Left

Michael Dean Clark explores the mistakes we make and opportunities we miss when we save our eulogies for the memorial service.

eulogies
Libby Swope Wiersema

Conchology

The poet Libby Swope Wiersema writes on grief and healing.

David Jacobsen

Until an End Is Made

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

Paul Jaussen

Lighting the Way: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

The Road1, with its impersonal depictions of cannibalism and murder in the aftermath of an unknown apocalypse, is one of the most spiritual novels written in recent years. The contrast may appear stark: how can the brutally physical reveal that which we tend to conceive of as transcendent? There is a long-standing assumption, at least […]