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.

Robert Farrar Capon on the goodness of creation.

What does a poem see?

Optimism ain't no substitute for resurrection hope.

Martin Laird's strange little book on the path of contemplation.

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the gift of meaning-making friendships.

Painting on leather, and other strategies for resisting dehumanization.

Detractors wanted more useful poems. Seamus Heaney knew better.