We tend to think of the line as a great democratizer. But in a world where the convenience of being online reduces the need for the human line, who waits?

Jeff Daniels plays a classic outlaw in Netflix's Godless. So what is he doing in a cleric’s collar?

How did my religious relatives square their faith with owning guns? Maybe they wondered the same thing about me: how did I justify being gay and Christian?

Short-term Resident Scholar Nancy K. Barry is working on an autobiographical narrative based on her personal experiences with breast cancer treatment.

In this Scholar Fridays interview, Ruth Harder describes her "full-blown argument with Psalm 91" where she does most of the arguing.

Michele (Mickie) Micklewright describes her hybrid narrative titled In the Dawn of Shadows: The Voice of a Minister, a Woman, from the Catholic Tradition.

Is there anything good about forgetting? Charles Halton reviews Lewis Hyde's book A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.

Who are the Christians that voted for Donald Trump? Angela Denker explains how Red State Christians lost confidence in the nation's Christian identity.

In our July edition of Book Notes, we highlight recently published poetry books written by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute.

"I wake in the night saying help me. / In the morning the words still on my lips."

"Notice, You" is a new poem about home lost and found by Jen Crow, a Collegeville Institute Twin Cities Fellow from 2015-2017.

In our July edition of Book Notes, we highlight recently published poetry books written by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute.