"When our fathers died nearly one year apart to the day, my husband Fred and I came face to face with our differing religious views of the afterlife."

The writers of Law & Order: SVU seem to view nuns like Sr. Peg positively specifically because they’re not part of the hierarchy.

Father Phil from The Sopranos demonstrates that even the best of clerics find themselves wrestling with their human nature.

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.

"All our attempts to aim for you / fall wide of the target." Read a poem by John D. Groppe, former Resident Scholar at the Collegeville Institute (1969-70).

"a living green cathedral spire / towers before me / I approach — bearing myself / like a gift to an altar — to touch"

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