Listing
Here’s an excerpt from my latest Image essay if you’re interested: Isaiah returned to the scene of the crime to survey his work. It was
Letters to camp
My youngest boys, Isaac and Isaiah (10 and 7), depart today for a week-long summer camp, which is a cause for excitement on their part,
Legos in the Deep
Like many, I passed this spring through Lent. It felt longer than in past years, because there has been a kind of Lenten work being
A Darkness That May Be Felt
Some of you may like my latest essay at Image, about the 21 young men murdered by ISIS in Libya. Here’s an excerpt: These stories
The beast without
“Isaac’s being a jerk,” my seven year-old, Isaiah, says about his older brother. They have been sledding over new-fallen snow. “Why do you say that?” “Because
When He is Silent
A reader whose younger sister recently died wrote me to ask how I endured, during the time of my daughter’s sickness and death, the silence
Temple of bones
Every baptism in the Orthodox Church entails an exorcism, as I learned last Easter when I was baptized into the Church. It was nothing desperate
Fair
I’ve been working on contentment, which mostly means I’ve been praying for God to help me be content in whatever circumstances I find myself, then
Light in Darkness
It feels almost unseemly, hurling another post at you so soon after the last, given my long absence before. Think of me as the gregarious
Madonna and Child
This past year, most of my scarce scraps of writing time have gone into revising a novel, which is currently in the hands of a
Politics, porn, and football
Some of you may like my attempt, though it probably deserves more thought, to articulate why we pay little attention to big-money sports in my
The turned back
I will tell you something about courage and cowardice. I will speak primarily about men, because I am a man, and because the evil that
