Jorge Luis Borges is an Argentine writer who is known for his short stories. His work is philosophical and paradoxical. As a magical...

Can you remember the first time you became aware of your own body? Perhaps you fell off your bike and scraped both knees, perhaps you...

Disclaimer: The following content contains graphic medical descriptions which may be disturbing to some readers. The church looked...

Brother Worthy was having a quiet day sitting in the abbey’s garden tending to his prayers and reading when the young man Jeff Faux...

I kneel in tender broken darkness He knows My knees splayed against my ribs He knows My chest rises and falls He knows this feeling too...

Introduction Twelve months after the murder of George Floyd, The Economist argued that understanding public discourse on race and racism...

NAIL Why did you pound me into wood, which sent shockwaves through me? I am held here captive between splinters and grain. WOOD Why did...

Over the past few years, incited in part by our national response to the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade and the 2020...

It was 2018. I had already ridden a terrible wave of bipolar up and down many times. Between strained friendships, familial frustrations,...

Then a prayer circle formed around me, praying my doubts would go away… Throughout middle and high school, I was closely involved in a...

It’s October 2020, and my insides are on fire. There are people on the news saying things that God hates, and it makes me so mad that I...

[Editor’s Note: This analysis of how a Christian message of forgiveness can be found in unlikely places should not be taken as Between...

In the beginning, there was the Word. The word created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over...

“Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.” - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada [Note: This is a review of the film, The...

The tragic divorce of the STEM fields and the humanities was first documented in 1959 in C.P. Snow's seminal essay The Two Cultures and...

What is the value of my colored pencil drawing of tall thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana var. virginiana) that hangs on my living room...

On the precipice of the future, I glanced into the past; aware of all that had been which could not last. Moving into the realm of...

When you fell, you rejoiced at becoming new, but my roots cannot fill the crater you leave. You didn’t see how birds and beasts were...

I recently read an article by Arthur Brooks which contends that cultivating multiple interests and doing different kinds of activities,...

In our current cultural moment, where speed, efficiency, and distraction are immanent, can food be a way to slow to the pace that allows...