Writing on religious and spiritual history, practice and experience.
“The nuns in attendance reminded me of a phone conversation I had with my father after the autopsy of the young motorcyclist. Over the course of the conversation, he asked how my time at the hospital was going. I recounted to him, without going into much detail, that the process of autopsy is quite difficult […]
Read More Things Other People Said: Random Snippings of Annotated BibliographyLast week I was handed a stack of surveys for my students. Some of the questions were about their sexual practices (or lack thereof). I sort of hated to touch the things, even blank. They suggested to me that our assembly the next day would be about sexual practices (or lack thereof), the tail of […]
Read More Put A Ring On ItI was running way late because I had spent too much time with Katharine Hepburn. Her autobiography. (Which, as you would expect, isn’t at all afraid of zinger fragments and movie-script-style stabs at exposing a slice of her story. Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes included, no extra charge.) And I really, really didn’t want to […]
Read More A Good SeedI think when people say, “I want to be beautiful, and I want to be in love,” they are actually saying, “I want to be listened to.”
Read More The Sound of One Man Waiting
Going On 