In the days before the pandemic, back when we would visit strangers’ houses with no fear of illness or getting others sick, my church did something they called...
Author - Emily Sanna
I decided things had officially gone too far when it seemed like knitting a pair of socks in 12 hours was a good decision. It was “crazy sock day” at day care...
My mom and I were at the butterfly garden with my 8-month-old when the calls and texts started coming in. “Are you OK?” worried friends and family members...
Who’s Black and Why? Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Harvard University Press, 2022) Anti-Black racism has an origin. “Race” and the...
My favorite photo of my husband and son was taken in the early hazy days of parenthood when the latter was about 2 weeks old. It’s not a very good photo by...
Infinite Regress By Joshua Hren (Angelico Press, 2022) Novelist and poet Joshua Hren’s latest work, Infinite Regress, pits the existentialist’s nihilism...
Readings (Year C): Acts 1:1-11Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9Ephesians 1:17-23Luke 24:46-53 Reflection: Our bodies are holy I have a confession: I don’t always like...
Called: A Memoir By Mark Redmond (Onion River Press, 2021) I cannot think of a better example of someone truly living their life’s vocation than Mark Redmond...
In 2010 a series of deaths by suicide began in the interior Alaskan villages surrounding Tanana, a community of approximately 200 people, most of whom are...
