31 vignettes from a week at Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.

On Hartmut Rosa, resonance, and the grace of the open hand.

May her memory be a blessing.

May his memory be a blessing.

On the World Cup, and Elisabeth Elliot, and Venn diagrams.

And the "rehumanization of our common life," while we're at it.

And woefully inadequate emoji(s), too.

Wise and curious companions "for the living of these days."

A personal reflection on the thief who asks Jesus to remember him.

A holy encounter in London.

On learning to love what you'll lose, with James K.A. Smith.

13 of 'em, to be precise.

Summing up the infinite with Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt.

In this case, of the literary and peripatetic variety.

Reflecting on faith, art, and sentimentality with The Painter of Light™.

Joan Didion wasn't trying to inspire us. She was saying beware.

Introducing my new Mockingbird essay.

In praise of “amateurs.”

What more can be said?

It has to be costly to mean something.