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I have always wanted to see the look on Qoheleth’s face. An innovative thespian on a spiritual quest recently gave me that chance.

A colleague from the theater department at my university had told me that someone was doing a monologue of Ecclesiastes at a local fringe festival. I was excited in a way that betrays my particular nerdiness about this topic. I bought a ticket to Meaningless and sat up front, eagerly waiting to finally meet the sage, whom I had been studying for so many years, in person.

If so, what did he mean?

Both his strengths and his failings are distinctly Catholic.

My church offered college students weekly fellowship.
It turns out they needed the food, too.

One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.

At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.