I had never heard the Latin phrase, “memento mori,”until a couple of weeks ago when we were in New Orleans,…
This past December I did a post about Flannery O’Connor that included this quote from A Prayer Journal (published after…
I have read dozens of books about prayer—including my favorites from the Orthodox spiritual tradition, like Beginning to Pray, Courage…
A couple of years ago I discovered Flannery O’Connor’s wonderful book (published after she died) A Prayer Journal. It contains…
I love anthologies. Two of my dozen or so published essays appear in anthologies—“Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow,” in Circling Faith:…
My friend and fellow writer, Karissa Knox Sorrell, invited me to contribute a guest post to her Lenten series, “Wednesday…
Back in November I mentioned that Flannery O’Connor’s personal prayer journal had been discovered and was to be published. This…
Gregory Wolfe has an excellent two-part article in the online journal, Image, (of which he is editor) this week called…
So, I was tagged on Facebook to share “10 books that have stayed with you in some way.” Of course…
If you’re on Facebook, you probably already read about my disposal exploding Wednesday afternoon—just as I was finishing up cooking…