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The Olfactory Sacrament

By Cynthia Briggs Kittredge

Apr 16, 2019

When I was very little, I used to visit my mother’s mother. And my mother’s mother’s mother lived upstairs. Her room was a mysterious place, alluring and a bit forbidding. She was in her mid-90s, of German descent, a faithful Lutheran, a holy woman. What I remember about going up to call on her in […]

Anointed Tears

By Lindsey Ardrey

Apr 10, 2019

Last Wednesday was a heavy day. I felt more like I was buried beneath the hump rather than joyously riding it toward the week’s end. The day began with a history class lecture on the American system of slavery and its intimate relationship with all of the institutions, particularly ecclesial, that weave together our American […]

Personhood, Communion, and Transcendence

By Nathan Jennings

Mar 21, 2019

As this Lenten season begins, instead of fretting over what my Lenten discipline might be, I find myself ruminating over and over again – wilderness. Translated from the Greek ἔρημος, meaning “desert” or “desolate place,” wilderness conjures images of longing, death, and exhaustion. I wonder about the wilderness the Hebrews pass through in their […]

Into the Wilderness

By Caden Campbell

Mar 13, 2019

As this Lenten season begins, instead of fretting over what my Lenten discipline might be, I find myself ruminating over and over again – wilderness. Translated from the Greek ἔρημος, meaning “desert” or “desolate place,” wilderness conjures images of longing, death, and exhaustion. I wonder about the wilderness the Hebrews pass through in their […]

Dwelling in Impossibility

By Scott Bader-Saye

Mar 6, 2019

At lunch today, a student said, “If you are going to talk about life, you have to talk about death.” I think she’s right. Ash Wednesday is one of the days we talk about death. We talk not just with words but with the act of imposition. We are imprinted with the dust that […]