The Communion of Saints
Writer Jeanne Murray Walker offers a mediation on leaving church and finding fellowship and peace at Produce Junction.
View ArticleHobbits, Heroes, and Football
The stories we tell about ourselves and our faith are important, says Chelle Stearns, and in this essay she looks at how our athletic culture informs those stories. Taking her cue from J. R. R....
View ArticleThe Catch & Esau’s Portion
In “The Catch,” Long offers the image of a fisherwoman, carrying the “stunned pewter” of her catch, to market. In “Esau’s Portion,” we are brought to the hospital cafeteria and the funeral potluck,...
View ArticleTo Love Oneself Through Food: Geneen Roth and a Christian Resistance to...
Elizabeth Antus argues that an engagement with the work of best-selling author Geneen Roth enables Christians, especially women, to articulate resistance to the body-hating cycle of dieting and...
View ArticleTasting the Animal Kingdom
After an earnest fifteen-year abstention from meat, Alissa Herbaly Coons finds solace in the stockpot, coming to terms with her place in the food chain and the glory to be found in the breaking not...
View ArticleFinding Connection in the Bread and the Cup
Jo-Ann Badley and Stephanie Neill propose that the current interest in food in North American culture redresses cultural patterns of detachment in ways consonant with New Testament practices of...
View ArticleThe Comfort Food of Pretzel Logic: Regulating Emotion with Steely Dan
Breaking up is hard to do. John Totten addresses music as a method for regulating distressing emotions in the context of broken attachments, specifically regarding his own “relationship” with the music...
View ArticleForms and Flows of the Word
In this essay, Villegas suggests that through worship we are invited to let the Holy Spirit form us into an assemblage of priests, subverting hierarchies of power and always making space for new people...
View ArticleThe Rules of Sustenance
Amy Scheer writes about love and legalism in a Michigan homeless shelter.
View ArticleSexuality, Dialogue, and the Church: An Interview with James Alison
In this interview, James Alison speaks with us about his work on the issue of sexuality and how he attempts to create a dialogical space around this topic in his Catholic context.
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