An Easter Reflection In Ukraine this week, there will be women writing on eggs in bomb shelters and basements and in their homes. Ukrainians will be writing on eggs in Poland and Germany, in Canada and elsewhere. Ukranian Americans will be writing eggs in New York and Texas and California…

In a poem in his Daily Prayer book, the Irish poet Padraig O Tuama examines an old Irish Proverb, “Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine,” which is frequently translated: “In the shelter of one another the people live.” O Tuama’s poem, however, shows that the phrase has more…

On a Tuesday earlier this month, a local business owner here in Columbia, Missouri was walking home at the end of a late night, when he came across a disturbing reality as he was filming his journey home on his phone. In front of the Wabash bus station at 10th…

Happy Magic Manufacturing Season! The small people in my life are at peak holiday magic age, and since their joy is my drug of choice, I am going BONKERS! We have a lego advent calendar, and a jam advent calendar, and a little stuffed gnome who gets up to varying…

Content Note: This piece includes descriptions of a movie in which a child dies and a personal story about a frightening health scare for my own child that turned out well in the end. I know there are many stories where it has not turned out well in the end…

by Rev. Molly Housh Gordon The Irish poet W.B. Yeats lived in a tumultuous time — through Irish revolution, the first World War, a global Spanish Influenza pandemic, and the lead up to the second World War. In 1889 he published a book of Irish Fairytales with an introduction about…

The billionaires are making their exit strategy: Bezos & Branson, headed for space, forgetting, perhaps, that they’ve already filled it with trash. Junk satellites float silently in clacking, cluttered orbit. There is no escaping the mess we’ve made in our hurry to bring it all under control. No place to outrun the…

There is this thing that bodies do: Some do it less than we would like, Some do it more than is helpful, And maybe there are a handful out there who do it just right, There is this thing that bodies do, Which is to hold feelings at bay Until it is…

In the fourth quarter of his life, which is to say, as long as I knew him, my Grandfather was obsessed with following the literature on how to live longer. He would try any method with enough gravitas behind it, and funny enough, (by which I mean of course, given the $70 billion…