Books In Review: Rachel Gross wants to blur the distinction between Jewish culture and Jewish religion Being Jewish goes beyond the synagogue. by Jon Sweeney June 23, 2021
Critical Essay Flannery O’Connor’s challenge to the Lost Cause myths of the Confederacy A little-known O’Connor story explores the human cost of self-deception. by Pete Candler May 15, 2019
First Words Recipes from long ago Old handwritten recipes conjure up all kinds of memories. by Peter W. Marty December 20, 2018
Books In Review: Letting Augustine be Augustine How to capture the urgency of Confessions? New translations by Sarah Ruden and Peter Constantine offer very different approaches. by Sean Hannan June 27, 2018
Features Lynched but not forgotten The National Memorial for Peace and Justice represents a watershed moment in the idea and practice of what a public memorial can be. by Pete Candler June 4, 2018
First Words Remembering the things that give life In occupied Paris, Yo-Yo Ma's father memorized Bach violin sonatas by day so he could play them during the blackout each night. by Peter W. Marty April 20, 2018
Books In Review: Sydney Lea's poetry of memory After many years looking at life in all its idiosyncrasies, Lea offers his 12th collection. It's intimate and authentic. by Mark S. Burrows | March 15, 2018
Books In Review: The vocation of being a stranger As a mother and a woman of color, I read Camille Dungy's book as a personal roadmap. by Josina Guess January 19, 2018
On Media Robots of the West Westworld’s claim is that memory leads to consciousness, which leads to violence. by Kathryn Reklis December 19, 2016
First Person Sister Everard's silence We thought her only stern and rigorous and dry—until one afternoon in October. by Brian Doyle October 5, 2016
Faith Matters Unremembered In the midst of a procession of well-known stories is an image marking what's been forgotten. That's most of history, isn't it? by Stephanie Paulsell June 28, 2016
Books In Review: Teaching love Honestly facing the conflict of self with self—and choosing words that reveal its particular manifestations in one life—is hard, hard work. by Shirley Hershey Showalter March 29, 2016
Faith Matters Witnesses in the cloud Critics view genealogy as a kind of ersatz historiography, an individualistic reconstruction of the past. But there is more to family tree building. by Carol Zaleski August 27, 2015
Features Writing the Christian life: The essence of spiritual memoir A memoir becomes explicitly Christian when it derives its literary power from the power of the gospel. It doesn't preach, it shows. by Richard Lischer August 24, 2015
On Media Feelings and faith As I watched Inside Out, I found myself thinking about Augustine's assertion that we are what we love and what we hate. by Kathryn Reklis July 22, 2015