Eric Martin saw a problem. One day at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, weeks after torch-wielding neo-Nazis marched through campus and an enraged...
Young adults
The Nuns & Nones origin story is almost disappointingly practical. In 2016 Santa Fe-based minister Wayne Muller visited retreat centers of women religious...
“I feel a little like fresh meat,” my husband, Matt, whispered to me. We’d just walked into the crowded church hall, where the congregation’s annual benefit...
“Your sons and daughters will prophesy . . .” (Acts 2:17). I write this when hundreds of thousands of middle and high school students across the nation joined...
“When are you guys gonna buy a place?” asked a couple sitting at a marriage prep retreat table with my fiancé and me. This was right after the priest leading...
In high school my tight-knit group of friends and I would converge on weekends at our friend Nicole’s house. We would load up on snacks, candy, and pop and...
I have never seen a movie more true to experience at an all-girls Catholic high school than Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. The film follows 17-year-old...
Art covers the walls of a hip storefront in downtown Waterloo, Iowa. On the Saturday before Halloween, 500 kids make their way inside to claim a piece of...
One night during graduate school, some classmates and I went out to a local brewery to celebrate the end of the semester. We each enjoyed one, maybe two, craft...
Once a week I take out the trash. It’s a bit of a journey, carrying the overstuffed bag down two flights of stairs, out a door, through a gate, and around the...