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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.

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Prayer 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.

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Prayer, 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.

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Tiniest 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.

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The Sun and the Salutation

A reflection comparing word-based spiritual practices to embodied ones such as yoga.

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I 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.

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Immanuel: 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.

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Until an End Is Made

Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.

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Blood 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...

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Prayer 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.

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Prayer, 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...

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Tiniest 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.

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The 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...

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I 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...

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Immanuel: 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,...

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Until 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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