home is anywhere you hang your head

There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me. Finally I...

This is the final part of my series on Leah Libresco's discussion group on "The...

One of the neat things about Libresco's "Benedict Option" gathering (for what this actually was,...

Part one aka What the heck is this thing? is here. At Leah's, we discussed...

On Friday night I went over to Libresco's to talk about "the Benedict Option" with...

I just finished reading a collection of Samuel R. Delany's short stories and novellas from...

for AmCon: Most of the art and literature of friendship is elegiac. From Montaigne to...

Oh so much more on this book from me coming soon! First, Wes is interviewed...

One reason I love the Weakerthans is that their songs are set in their hometown....

from 2014, but well worth your time now: ...For people like Loftus, it’s not coffee...

on the social construction and theology of disability, sort of: For those who didn’t quite...

at Christianity Today: When I became a Christian, most of my friends and family were...

subscribers-only for now. I'm one of four respondents (the others are Peter Ould, Lisa Severine...

at AmCon--I think this piece turned out well: Ten years ago Marilynne Robinson began telling...

reports: ...That's how it's been for a decade for James Robertson, Detroit's Walking Man. Twenty...

This is the part that really irks me the most on eschewing “Christian.” It’s as...

via Ratty, and super-relevant to conversations here about friendship as kinship: A neighborhood kerfuffle on...

Marion Barry, RIP. Look, Barry started out as a civil-rights organizer throwing block parties in...

opens up a really important area of the conversation: A few weeks ago, I mentioned...

A Gay and Catholic extra post! For a lot of people I think the language...

This is a little 1949 satire--dedicated "To James and Helen Thurber," if you want to...

blogs: To close out this week’s series on friendship, I’d like to recommend three articles...

at AmCon: About an hour and a half into Richard Linklater’s memorable new film, my...

The two things I focus on with this mystery are the union of body and...

w/various things about his religion, but this was the part which struck me the most:...

Rachel Getting Married: The story of a woman coming out of rehab just in time...

So I'm in Sydney, and it's amazing. Beautiful weather (and what I'm gonna call sublime...

Dinaw Mengestu's 2010 How to Read the Air tells two parallel stories: In alternating chapters,...

for AmCon: If you couldn’t understand what your family was saying, would you understand them...

One truism of addiction science is that long-term abuse rewires your brain and changes its...