Poetry as Pastoral Resource: The Art of Losing

At the local library you’re most likely to find me leafing through the new cookbooks or reading up on the latest techniques for the small farmer. (Please note: my local […]

Let’s Cross Over: Reflections on Eat, Pray, Love

by Katie McKay Simpson I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love cover to cover one Friday in July, sitting in a coffee shop in Bossier City, LA.  I had just […]

The Lilith Fair

by Bromleigh McCleneghan Fumbling Toward Ecstasy provided the soundtrack for my first major mourning period following a high school break-up. Every night of that fall, I put the tape — […]

Lost: The Final Chapter

by MaryAnn McKibben Dana The phenomenon known as LOST came to a close a few weeks ago. If you don’t watch the show, your life isn’t that different, except maybe […]

What Not To Wear: Off the Rack Ontology

by Amy Real Coultas I decided to go in civvies to our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper. I wore a rather simple crew neck shift dress, deep maroon, synthetic, with a […]

Let’s Talk about Sex

Every time a book comes out about Christianity and sexuality, I read it. (Well, I have not yet gotten to Rob Bell’s Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality […]

Organic Jesus

by Sarah Segal McCaslin Last August, my husband, 6 month-old daughter Claire and I took a trip to Santa Cruz, California, to introduce our young daughter to my husband’s family […]

Contracts, Covenants and Conan

By Laura Stephens-Reed Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh and I will […]

The Good Book

by Elsa A. Peters While we search for epiphanies after the birth of our salvation,  I'd like to offer a review of a book that I have learned to cherish with […]

Where are the Wild Things? Chances Are, You’ve Met Them Before…

by Lara Blackwood Pickrel If you are anything like me, you remember the gritty pastel and grey drawings from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are with a certain warm […]