Cleaning Out the Junk

Editor’s Note: Paula Huston is one of the best contemporary writers on spirituality.  Her new book, Simplifying the Soul (Ave Maria Press) provides a daily meditation and small but significant ascetic practice for each day of Lent.  We think it… Read More

Casting Out Fear

Valerie's voice on the phone was hoarse with emotion, and of course my thoughts flew right to the kids.  We've known Chris and Valerie's oldest, six-year-old Jack, since the day he was born.  As close friends and neighbors, we were… Read More

Fortitude: The Art of Courageous Continuing

The wedding was over, the bride and groom off on their honeymoon, the guests long dispersed. The days of feasting had ended, and we were back in ordinary time. For a couple of nights running, I fell into a deep… Read More

The Art of Holding a Balance

Our oldest daughter, Andrea, was finally marrying her Josh, and the wedding countdown was on. Only four months left till July, when 225 guests would be arriving at our place for the nuptial ceremony and feast. Thank heavens I was… Read More

The Art of Seeing Clearly

The day I turned 50, I submitted my resignation letter to my department head and dean at the university where I'd been working and teaching for the past twenty years.  The decision to quit was not made lightly — in… Read More

Marriage: A Path to God

My friend Larry has a term for it: “spiritual divorcées.” They often crop up in small, intimate Christian groups, particularly those that focus on deepening spirituality. Spiritual divorcees are married people who have heeded the call to greater solitude, silence,… Read More

The Worship of Mammon

My first real job was with the Welfare Department. I had to interview families applying for aid, then drive to the outer regions of the county to make home visits with these prospective clients. More than once I found myself… Read More

The Snob in Church

There was something inexplicably moving about all those feet shuffling up the aisles of the church, those softly intoned words, “The body of Christ,” repeated over and over again until everybody had been fed.
Dailiness, however, was bound to take… Read More

The Idol of Work

This I did, cutting back my university teaching schedule to half time, giving up committees and projects, asking for an extension on a pending book deadline. The first and most dramatic effect of all this scaling back was on the… Read More

Teachers of Generosity

In fourth grade, for example, I was a broody little girl, beset by younger siblings as by devils, with a heart that cried out for silence, beauty, and peace. Everything at home seemed too much — too many people, too… Read More

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