Quake Essays by readers
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Quake.”
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A new translation of The Dark Night of the Soul thrills with adventure
In St. John of the Cross’s poetry, the dark night is also a night of profound, even ecstatic beauty.
Sacred wrestling with the Bible s harsh passages
That God would fight for Israel is meant to elicit horror.
How should I pray for the climate?
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
Reckoning with our messiah complexes
The vulnerability of the newborn Christ challenges our inclination to play God.
An American teenager in Slovakia
How a year overseas unraveled and remade Sarah Hinlicky Wilson’s identity
The Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey taught me how to pray again
So why didn’t I want to introduce my Methodist congregants to them?
Maybe it’s time for me to let go of Thomas Merton
Who do I pay attention to who may be prophetically controversial today?
’Tis the season for royal Christmas movies
What exactly is it about the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that says “tiara romance”?