Sometimes a poem takes years to complete, undergoing multiple revisions. In this essay, Andrew Taylor-Troutman takes us through his process.

Metaphors matter. They add richness and beauty to life, and they reveal truth, reminding us of the divinely created unity of the world.

Care of God’s earth cannot be dismissed as just a political issue, particularly if the church hopes to show that religion can be a force for good.

In her memoir Loving and Leaving a Church, Barbara Melosh explores the challenges of being a mainline pastor in a declining congregation.

Short-term Resident Scholar Craig Boyd examines virtues and vices in J.R.R. Tolkien's works, including Gollum's insatiable envy in The Lord of the Rings.

In this interview, Enuma Okoro describes the gift of bringing one's whole self to a Collegeville Institute writing worksop on identity and belonging.

Our January Book Notes includes four new titles on topics ranging from Celtic spirituality to faith at midlife by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute.

Over ten years after publishing a best-seller on spiritual practices, Lauren Winner returns to explore their characteristic damage in her latest book.

In this excerpt from her forthcoming book, Pastor Melissa Florer-Bixler writes: "Job taught me to love the dark."

"She dreams of the ridiculousness of human life, / How often so little was at stake. Overdrafts. / Overdue library books. Number of likes on Facebook."

When her infant daughters were dying in the hospital, Laura Kelly Fanucci spoke Mary Oliver's poem "In Blackwater Woods" over them like a benediction.

"Why can’t my lavender live through the frost? / Why does my skin make cancer in the sun?"