Who are the “good Christians”?
Most of us who fall into the “Christian” category walk around with at least some conception of a “good Christian” in our heads. It might not be a very good conception. It might not […]
Category Archives: Spirituality for the Rest of Us
Light and Truth in Rothko Chapel
In the arts district of Houston, Texas, there is a chapel that embodies many modern and postmodern attitudes toward art and religion. Situated near the University of St. Thomas, the […]
Rootedness in a Transient World
When I was married for six and a half years, I realized we had moved seven times. Eight for me if you count moving in with my wife when we […]
Hillbilly Theology
In my own small corner of the Blogosphere, I keep bumping up against this book called Hillbilly Elegy. Its subtitle, A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, hints […]
Why is “seize the day” our universal motto?
Seize the day. Live for the moment. Be yourself. Only you can be you, only now can be now. Maxims like these populate my Facebook and Twitter feed like commercials […]
The Epic Story, Part II
In my previous post, I suggested that in order to make sense of our little and everyday stories, we need a view from above. Like a cosmic director, God has […]
The Epic Story, Part I
At Wondering Fair, we love the little story. We understand a universal God through the gritty particulars of animal instincts and awaiting adoptions, of breastfeeding babies and ‘Black Friday’ blues. […]
Is Doubt the Enemy of Faith?
Doubt gets a bad rap. We live in a world where we are not supposed to doubt, it is unhealthy—bad. Doubts, though, are like confrontations, which also have a bad […]
Is all hope groundless hope?
Live without hope. Think without hope. It makes suffering worse. That is the moral of a recent piece on The New York Times’ The Stone blog named, fittingly, Abandon (Nearly) […]
A Breath of Beauty
An iconic movement blossomed in Parisian circles in the late 1860s. Artists like Claude Monet, Jean-Pierre Renoir and Edward Degas started to forge a new way of painting, opening a […]
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