Books In Review: Monastic wisdom for a non-cloistered world After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Paul Quenon wrote a memoir. by Debra Bendis February 8, 2019
Books In Review: Vibrant, vigorous, and weird Almost any page of this collection yields the precise puzzling haunting music of Dillard’s mind at work. by Brian Doyle June 29, 2016
Books In Review: Poetic nothingness This collection is suffused with one of poetry’s most fundamental aims: making meaning out of suffering and loss. by Anya Silver May 2, 2016
Books In Review: Poetic solitude From his youth Lax experienced a love of God that would not abate, calling him toward both solitude and engagement with others. by Scott Cairns April 17, 2016
Feature Letting suffering in: How a colleague's death changed my teaching I knew Jannie Swart's witness would have a lasting impact on our seminary. I didn't anticipate how it would challenge me in the classroom. by L. Roger Owens February 12, 2016
Cover Story 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
Feature Ephemera: Notes from the farm This spring, I didn't find any morels in the woods around my house. But I did find a lot of other things. by Terra Brockman June 11, 2015
Feature From survival to love: Evolution and the problem of suffering For Andrew Elphinstone, human selfishness and violence are not evidence of a world gone wrong. They show a person ripe for transformation. by Bethany Sollereder September 3, 2014
Faith Matters This is 50 The journals of Merton, Woolf and others encouraged me to see my birthday as a new beginning—and to live my 50th year as a year of jubilee. by Stephanie Paulsell February 15, 2013
Faith Matters Monkish ways As a graduate student, my father visited the Abbey of Gethsemani. His experiences there entered him in some permanent way. by Stephanie Paulsell March 29, 2012
Faith Matters Shared devotion The deep attention and reverence that Thomas Merton and Abdul Aziz brought to each other's books, traditions and lives undergirded their friendship, and the frank way they explored their similarities and differences enlivened it. by Stephanie Paulsell November 17, 2010