An impending job change prompts questions about future expectations.
A reflection on the time when death washes up on the liturgical year.
A reflection on the direction of the world, with reference to poets.
Following an unconventional path to parenthood.
A reflection on suffering and hope in the music of Martyn Joseph.
Advice to a teen-aged self struggling with anxiety.
Learning to see and dismantle global injustice.
Loving marginalized places enough to unearth their gifts and share their burdens.
Exploring the theme of grief in Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life.
A report from *culture is not optional in a season of reflection.
Pining for fall in the American South.
Reflecting on the films Melancholia and Another Earth as Christmas approaches.
Naming the evidence, large and small.
Reflecting on the legacy of a hard life lived well.
A song for the soundtrack of good times and bad.
Reconsidering the life goals of a high school self.
Contemplating goals as the mother of a new baby.
Unearthing the memories of love and loss contained in the family cabin.
Preparing for the third annual Huss Future Festival in the middle of a record-breaking drought.
A reflection on the concerns of a man and a woman of the Ratwa Bhil tribe in central India.
GUNS WANTED – need money for Christmas?
I am in need of some serious dental work.
Reflections on changing, adapting and continuing forward.
On the paradoxes of lament and hope, destruction and creation, failure and commitment.
A mad farmer reflects on bringing life back to Maple Tree Meadows through bartering, laboring and other acts of faith.
Albany Park Theater Project’s I Will Kiss These Walls invents a “theater of hope” in the face of foreclosure.
An encounter with a phoenix, rising from the ashes.
Responding to revenge porn victims -- and ourselves -- with compassion.
Can a poem change the world?
Albany Park Theater Project’s God’s Work shows us the kind of world we live in.