
Learning about Gratitude from the Onondaga
I realize we’re planning way ahead here, but if you happen to be in charge of an Easter Vigil service next spring, you should definitely

I realize we’re planning way ahead here, but if you happen to be in charge of an Easter Vigil service next spring, you should definitely

In honor of the official beginning of summer, I shall relate some maritime history of the Great Lakes. I knew almost nothing about maritime history

When Mount Saint Helens erupted in May of 1980, it lost 1,300 feet of elevation and gained a new mile-wide crater. The debris avalanche and

English has always been a hungry language: it readily devours words from other languages and from inventive word-crafters, assimilating new words into its own rich,

“Does ‘image of God’ make us lazy?” I jotted this in my notebook earlier this week, between phrases like “hinge point in history” and “geophysical

Morning, west window The sky feels oddly bright, considering the snow thickly falling in clustered flakes. The wind gusts, whirling flakes into powder, snowglobing my

The red planet and seed pods: an odd juxtaposition. But as I padded quietly through the gallery, it seemed to me that what the two

What is the value of a thistle? We don’t entirely know. I suppose God does. I suppose the little prickler gives praise to God in

As you spend a few last hours this summer in your Adirondack chair under a shady canopy of leaves—with that feeling of autumn’s imminence causing

But neither Toller’s problems nor religious despair in general are particularly Calvinist, nor do I think that’s what Schrader means to suggest. Schrader has long