On a tradition that binds what's past, even as it teaches for the future.
Navigating family culinary traditions around the holidays with grace and vision.
On family rituals as occasions to pass down heirloom memories of joy and sorrow.
How can our Christmas rituals proclaim good news for sad people?
Christmas comes in July for Benita Gonzalez and the on-call chaplain.
Road tripping and reflecting on maps and borders.
On vocation and waking up with a sense of purpose.
A catapult reader responds to the issue on nuclear weapons.
Snapshots from a second marriage ceremony, including what's outside the frame.
Relieving the unbearable lightness of privilege.
A call to embrace both joy and sorrow as we remember the birth of Immanuel.
A collection of joyful resolutions for the coming year.
A journey through the centuries to learn from that timeless teacher: the puddle.
Discovering the other pleasures of popular art.
A call to creativity, grace and the correspondence of action and belief.
A morning ritual offers lessons in complex simplicity.
Practicing community development on an eternal timeline.
Remembering a day full of grace after a busy week.
Exploring biblical themes for living life well together.
Recounting some of the year’s most hopeful, creative, generous, adventurous, expectant...
A case for delight in dressing ourselves.
Happiness is the best tool for fostering a healthy community.
On the paradoxes of lament and hope, destruction and creation, failure and commitment.
Remembering a mother who loves to cut a rug.
The history of dance for a preacher’s family.
A mad farmer reflects on bringing life back to Maple Tree Meadows through bartering, laboring and other acts of faith.
Revisiting Matthew 25 and the call to care for the “least of these.”
On the discipline of seeing Cincinnati at a slower speed.
On slowing down enough to see what there is to celebrate.
A mother’s wise advice still applies.