Blood on Our Hands: An Interview with Sister Helen Prejean
n this interview, Sister Helen Prejean of 'Dead Man Walking' fame tells about her fight to overturn the death penalty and save innocent men and women on death row.
View ArticlePrayer as Definition
In “Prayer as Definition,” the poet Nicholas Samaras meditates on the essence of prayer as both conversation and communion, even with the barest of words.
View ArticlePrayer, Insisting
In “Prayer, Insisting,” the poet Nicholas Samaras’s aching meditation on his own metonia, or repentence, is couched in an ancient prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner.
View ArticleTiniest Prayer
In “Tiniest Prayer,” the poet Nicholas Samaras recognizes the motion of prayer as one that humbles, that moves one “out of the center” and into the will of God.
View ArticleThe Sun and the Salutation
A reflection comparing word-based spiritual practices to embodied ones such as yoga.
View ArticleI Love You: An Interview with Dominique Ovalle
An interview with California artist Dominique Ovalle on painting, beauty, murals, cockroaches in Palau, and a reality behind life as an artist.
View ArticleImmanuel: Finding Integration and Wholeness
In the incarnation, we discern a new way to find integration and wholeness, one that takes with full seriousness our human struggle as a pathway to the divine.
View ArticleUntil an End Is Made
Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.
View ArticleBlood on Our Hands: An Interview with Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean is a vowed member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille. She has worked tirelessly for the abolition of the death penalty after befriending Patrick Sonnier on death row. Her...
View ArticlePrayer as Definition
In “Prayer as Definition,” the poet Nicholas Samaras meditates on the essence of prayer as both conversation and communion, even with the barest of words.
View ArticlePrayer, Insisting
Lord, if I can hold this one syllable with sincerity. Lord Jesus, if I can just hold my mind together. Lord Jesus Christ, if I can hold my mind for one genuine place. Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy for...
View ArticleTiniest Prayer
In “Tiniest Prayer,” the poet Nicholas Samaras recognizes the motion of prayer as one that humbles, that moves one “out of the center” and into the will of God.
View ArticleThe Sun and the Salutation
Where I’m from, it’s not unheard of to live for weeks without a glimpse of sun. Despite cloudless days, life feels like that lately—God feels like that lately. I know she must be there, but too many...
View ArticleI Love You: An Interview with Dominique Ovalle
Dominique Ovalle is a Californian artist whose work sparks with luscious texture and color and a search for absolute purity of form. She primarily works with oil on canvas, but she also experiments...
View ArticleImmanuel: Finding Integration and Wholeness
In the birth narrative of Jesus in Matthew 1, the gospel writer displays a deep awareness that Jesus is the one who has come to rescue humanity from all the things that mar, deface, and thwart life,...
View ArticleUntil an End Is Made
For BHF We had only one more residency at Whidbey Island, in Washington State, until we graduated from our mostly long-distance writing program, so the four of us boys had decided to commemorate the...
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