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Issue #6: Faith
LAUNCH STARTING April 11th – EVERY WEEK TILL May 2nd Word is faith. A word after a word…
Eid Mubarak
Life is full of strangers who are equal to the task of absence. The holes they climb out…
A Conversation with Gretchen McCullough
About writing Confessions of a Knight Errant: Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure What I love about Confessions…
Samira Azzam: A Palestinian Scheherazade Out of the Shadows
Reading Samira Azzam’s short-story collection Out of Time is a walk down the streets of Palestine, its homes…
The Akladios Brothers: Finding the Copts in Cosmopolitan Alexandria
In 1928, the papal representative at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria and the Majlis al-Milli (lay…
The Tragic Feline Space Program
Everyone knows about the 1957 launch of a dog into space, but few know about the cats…
Post-Life Revisions
I stood in heaven’s prairie, surrounded by rolling hills of clouds. It was emptier than I thought it’d…
Book Review: Confessions of a Knight Errant
Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure This is not my first encounter with the two main characters of…
The Mallard’s Song
The natural world of birds, trees, and skies has always been my sanctuary. It stills my restless heart…
Minor, Minor Details
You are recommended not to check your phone first thing in the morning, yet this is precisely what…
Fools and Children
You end your Bible study with the same tired line every week: “Have a bless-ed day.”…