pain

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

Meredith Kunsa’s prose poem retells the memory of a Pentecostal service where her grandmother, “jabbering in a voice” she cannot understand, gives a command that both haunts Kunsa and compels her to conclude that there is no Jesus in her, that “I’m not who I think I am.”

An essay that uses two recent Seattle Art Museum exhibits to compare Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and Kurt Cobain and to reflect on the nature of celebrity.

I will make him with red hair and a fiery tongue I will give him a country and a century a limp and strong hands I will take his wife but give him a daughter lovely enough to break his heart and will send him across the sea where he will die an old man […]

Mourning death is dramatically different around the world, as is the care people need in the face of death.

By helping people die well, the church can confront the new challenges of the posthuman project.

A former mountain climber defies death, this time, from her wheelchair.

In this poem, Luci Shaw metaphorically considers the cycles of collapse and reformation that define the spiritual life.

In this poem, Brad Davis attends to feelings of faith and doubt that swim through tragedy’s aftermath.