Forget Shorter Showers
byThough first published in 2009, “Forget Shorter Showers” is perhaps even more relevant today, as we enter the sixth year of drought in California,…
Contemplation stands condemned
by the daily asteriskContemplative obedience and abandonment to the will of God can never mean a cultivated indifference to the natural values implanted by Him in human…
Vintage Aerial
by Elisabeth WengerVintage Aerial is a huge, searchable database of old aerial photographs. In the project’s own words: Our collection of over 25 million photographs spans the…
Silence is revelatory
by the daily asteriskA practice of silence can help you to know yourself, others, and God better. How does that happen? One of the most common reasons…
Christian meditation?
by Kirstin Vander Giessen-ReitsmaA friend of Topology and *culture is not optional sent over a link to an essay by Christopher Harding for Aeon Magazine called “Silent…
This wonderful, terrible world
by the daily asteriskI hope whatever senses remain in the years I have left are always attuned to both the gifts and the sufferings of this wonderful,…
Wendell Berry: Dismemberment
by Elisabeth WengerFor those always eager for fresh words from the prophet, The Threepenny Review recently published a new short story by Wendell Berry, and it…
Moss is alive
by the daily asteriskIn the heated idleness of youth we were all rather inclined to quarrel with the implication of that proverb which says that a rolling…
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
by Kirstin Vander Giessen-ReitsmaOver several centuries, the assumed right of Christian nations to claim ownership of any territory they “discovered” and displace the people who called that…
Without a sound
by the daily asteriskWhy should I have been surprised? Hunters walk the forest without a sound. The hunter, strapped to his rifle, the fox on his feet…