MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: After 14 years, the man behind Son of Baldwin, the social justice social media community he created, sent his followers one last post, saying he did so with a heavy heart and afte
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Edouard Vuillard, Child Wearing a Red Scarf , c. 1891 At the end of last summer, when we moved to Oxford, we committed to 10 months without a car. We have three children aged six and under, so we knew
Parker J. Palmer Published May 07, 2018 Share “Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement
Walking is not just exercise, it is moving in space and time in a different way. It’s connection to nature and self — two huge, adventurous worlds that you could travel within endlessly, with no bound
As a student growing up, I never imagined that my teachers were looking forward to summer break as much as I was. But once I became a teacher and realized that teachers were human like everyone else,
The past decade has been a bad one for clear and specific language. Since around 2014, when the political left pivoted to emphasizing identity and systemic oppression, redefining words has become an i
Guest Essay What Do We Mean When We Call Mass Shooters ‘Evil’? June 10, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit... Matt Rota Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. An
STILL LIFE Vincent van Gogh, Long Grass with Butterflies, 1890 Still Life is a free weekly letter on art and spirit by Michael Wright. It takes many hours each week to create, and if you love it, cons
Is this where I, in an ultra-embarrassed fashion, admit that I couldn’t stop watching clips of the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial? Have you ever fallen into one of those YouTube spirals where you look
Welcome to many new Post Script readers this week. Thanks to Lore Wilbert , a favorite writer of mine, you’ve found your way here, and I’m grateful. (Now is the time to pre-order Lore’s wonderful new
Perhaps the key theme in C. S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man is his emphasis on the importance, in much classical and almost all medieval thought, of the chest as the seat, the location, of our mo
DAVID GENTLEMAN English artist, designer, and illustrator David Gentleman (b. 1930) studied wood engraving atthe Royal College of Art under John Nash , one of the ten founders of the Society of Wood E
We couldn’t have known, with all it’s fragments, how it would hold us together. But it has. My sister, a friend and I began our altered sketchbook project in 2013. We all had our own sketchbooks, but
This essay is excerpted and adapted from comments delivered on April 29 at the Scala Foundation’s conference “Art, the Sacred, and the Common Good.” B ack in my Jesuit high school days, when dinosaurs
They were right. I was wrong to call sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) a crisis. Crisis is too small a word. It is an apocalypse. Someone asked me a few weeks ago what I expected f
Prayer Consists of Attention: On Reading as a Spiritual Practice Essays May 9, 2022 | 5 books mentioned 6 min read Related Books: I first read Simone Weil ’s 1950 book Waiting for God six years ago. I
Perhaps the most difficult area for me as an introverted Christian woman and pastor’s wife has been the biblical call to hospitality and our culture’s interpretation of this calling. Popular Christian
“B efore I turn to the Word,” the preacher announces, “I’m gonna do another diatribe.” “Go on!” one man yells. “Amen!” shouts a woman several pews in front of me. Explore the June 2022 Issue Check out
Tish Harrison Warren If Roe Is Overturned, Where Should the Pro-Life Movement Go Next? May 8, 2022, 11:15 a.m. ET Credit... Matija Medved Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift arti
“We have been inoculated against the influenza here,” C. S. Lewis wrote to his father, in November 1918, as the Spanish flu pandemic raged. “If it is at all bad at home [in Belfast] I should get it do
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An industrialist intends to purchase Twitter, Inc. His substantial success launching reusable spaceships does nothing to prepare him for the challenge of building social spaces. The lat
That human beings understand themselves in terms of their dominant technologies has become a commonplace. Indeed, one could say that it was already a commonplace roughly 2,500 years ago, when the Psal
In 1923, the American movie star Dorothy Davenport lost her husband, the actor and director Wallace Reid, to an early death resulting from complications of morphine addiction. After the tragedy, Daven
It is well known that Christ consistently used the expression “follower.” He never asks for admirers, worshippers, or adherents. No, he calls disciples. It is not adherents of a teaching but followers
Getty Images Sam Zeff had always considered himself a pseudo-runner — a guy who’d go for a jog somewhat consistently but who never signed up for a race. There was always a part of him that was afraid
In his poem East Coker , T.S. Eliot writes that “the whole earth is our hospital.” Eliot is referencing “Adam’s curse”: the death and sin which resulted from mankind’s fall in Genesis 3. But the line
Give me proof, said Thomas, ————-— and he could see a hole in the palm before him, and inside the wound a glimpse —————————————–— of the valley on the other side, —–— what I call, for want of other wo
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MADISON, Wis. — When he was a little boy roaming the forests and marshes of Illinois, Rick Lindroth adored catching frogs and climbing trees. His dream came true when he became a full-time scientist,
Author’s Note: By the kind permission of both journals’ editors, a version of this piece with the title “Gabriel’s Word to Woman” is also being published today by Church Life Journal . I am especially
I F I TELL YOU THAT THE OPENING SEQUENCE of Tarkovksy’s Andrei Rublev upended my understanding of what a film could be, could do , what I mean is that it transfigured how I inhabit the world. The film
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