by Martin Flanagan You are American and I am Australian. We’re the same but different. What’s the difference? I think there are some general points we can agree on. The modern state we call America started as a Puritan settlement, a place of hope and liberty for religious dissenters. The modern state of Australia started as a […]
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These Eager Leaps
by Madison Bowman In the beginning, it was only music. That first day, I stretched my legs out on the cool tile floor of the empty chapel and watched his right hand flit over nylon strings while his left hand stroked at the neck of his cheap guitar. … He touched me only once in the first […]
Into the Fire
by Sallie Tisdale ’83 Every winter night of my childhood, my father built a fire. Each element of the evening’s fire was treated with care, with the caress of the careful man. The wood, the wood box, the grate, the coal, black poker, and shovel: he touched these more often than he touched me. I would […]
A Full-on Achy-Hearted Miracle
by Christie King Boyd ’05 Before that sunny afternoon in July, I trusted my body to carry me. It was a strong body, a confident body. It had pedaled a bicycle across the country. It had hiked through the Himalayas. It had birthed a baby. The healing is more about regaining that trust than it is […]
Going After God
by Father Kevin Grove, C.S.C. Tonight, we are going after God, and we will take up that adventure by means of desire and memory, in that order. Now, Genesis describes three desires that would have been intelligible across ancient near eastern civilizations. The first is the desire of the flesh — food, drink, sex. The […]