Arts & Culture
The buddy-cop feminist detective series I didn’t know I needed
Deadloch is one of the funniest, smartest, most unexpected delights I have watched in a long time.
A magical world of daily bread
In Luci Shaw’s new collection of poems, ordinary objects trespass their boundaries.
In praise of church musicians
Great leaders of congregational song attend to the new community formed every time a church gathers.
Still Life with Sacred Heart
You haven’t started sketching but you’ve arranged the scene:
a broken loaf, a glass of noir, the pomegranate, bruised, crowned with a blackberry vine....
A holy fool with chocolate
Understanding Wonka in light of the gospel’s message of radical, unconfined love
The Endless Undiluted Silence
I wish I could reach you there, where it is you live now, the ripples
of days cascading to no sound, where it is you aren’t. I can’t get beyond that wall,...
Cat and mouse and me
My cat, who’s kept inside all day, got bored, somehow slipped into my attached garage, cornered and caught a little mouse, and gored ...