Dare We Say It? The Bible Is a Messy Book
Somehow I had come to think of the Bible as stuck together from the start, a sacred, ordained book on which we speak our oaths...
Society & Culture
Locked Out
For eighteen years, I have been returning home, sliding that brass key into the lock, and stepping into comfort. Now I tense before I even try.
The Death of Parties Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Are we too afraid to admit that other people are just boring compared to the internet? Are we too timid to say that what we really want is a “party” redefined, reformulated, or done up some other way?
Decoding—and Recovering?—the Veil
No other garment is as modest and erotic, humble and powerful, obvious and enigmatic.
Donald Trump’s Road to Damascus
A spiritual pilgrimage we never expected.
Why Humans Shun the Humanities
History grows us up. And literature? It complicates the world for us. This is why we must kill the humanities.
When to Resist and How to Live Free
Living freely and intentionally is hard work. Every little decision winds up visible in the mosaic.
A Reason to Keep Going
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”~Viktor Frankl
How Much Mariano Rivera Did Not Want to Talk to Me
I thought I would take this slow moment to tell a baseball story—at a time when the names of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and (the most perishable of these names) Scott Brosius are not yet lost to common memory.
How to Restore the Art of Conversation
“We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”