Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Teenage Muslim Misadventures
American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar Little, Brown, 368 pages, $24.99 n Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish has been…
Jesus’s Challenge: Stand and Deliver
Both of my sons are wordsmiths and the elder one has a particular facility for delivering groan-inducing…
Easter Changes Everything
Christmas occupies such a large part of the Christian imagination that the absolute supremacy of Easter as…
Converts and the Symphony of Truth
Why do adults become Catholics? There are as many reasons for “converting” as there are converts. Evelyn…
Love God and Do What You Will: Avoiding Over-Devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Discernment
In so many Christian contexts today, it is almost impossible to avoid hearing about the importance of…
The Desert’s Austere Grace
It is not the kind of road you ever want to find yourself driving on in a…
Books for Christmas
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…
Richard John Neuhaus and the Priestly Vocation
Twenty years ago today, on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Richard John…
After Prudentius
Everything’s finishing. Soul, it is time to awake, shake from yourself the thin bindings belonging to folly.…
Among the Names of the Most Holy and Unnamable One
Elk calf, first five minutes on four legs, the shimmy and wobble of her. The undeniable inarguable…
Overcast
Deep in the country of unbroken clouds, The sundry broken crowds Have wondered for unnumbered years what…
Mato Paha
Like an emergent moth I’m flitting up a slope. Here strips of colored cloth affixed to every…
The Fast and Slow Growth
Having made my first promises in 2002 (after three years of dallying), next year I will celebrate…
Despair
She’s not the special one you thought would need protection till the end. She feeds on quarrel…
Manna
Open your mouth To feed that flesh Your teeth have bled Tongue us out Bone by bone…
