I live in an intentional community in a Quaker meetinghouse, and while rummaging through the Quaker library one day, I came across laminated, yellowing prints...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Damon Garcia is the author of “You Don’t Need a Calling: An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto for a Life of Purpose” (Broadleaf Books). When Damon Garcia was growing...
Every Sunday, during the Creed, Catholics profess their belief in the “communion of saints.” For most of us, most of the time, this conjures an image of...
I did a double take when Al Pacino’s face filled the projector screen during my undergraduate class on sacraments. Our professor, a Benedictine priest, wanted...
On a rainy summer evening in 1997, I joined about 40,000 other men for the opening night of a Christian men’s conference that held the same ethos as a football...
From my seat on the meditation cushion, I saw neon green leaves outside the window. Blue sky lay between them, with hot pink flowers sprinkled in. I was at a...
My first encounter with the knitting Madonna (as some call her) was not in church or in a museum, but rather on the internet. I was aimlessly cycling through...
It’s been decades since Father’s Day made any demands on me: no searching for the perfect card or gift for father, father-in-law, or grandfathers. Yet their...
Nearly 20 years ago, an immigration raid sent shockwaves through our community. I was 20 when la migra (immigration authorities) swarmed into the Discount...
The negative feedback I remember most from childhood was that I had a “sharp tongue.” I wasn’t a backstabbing mean girl, but boy could I slice a person in half...
