New CC content on grief, church buildings, James Joyce, and more.
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** Essays from Century readers
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A really exciting addition to my role here at the magazine is that I am now working closely with our Readers Write essay contests. These installments, which occur multiple times per year and are sponsored by the Frederick Buechner Center, are each based on a different one-word prompt. Our recently published batch of winning essays responded to the word STRETCH ([link removed]) . I really love these pieces. (Our next contest has a deadline of 8/1/24 and its prompt is FACE. You can find more details here ([link removed]) .)
Our video of the week is one of the most informative I’ve ever recorded! Following up on a recent article he wrote for us, Marc Roscoe Loustau joins me to discuss military chaplains serving the Ukrainian army ([link removed]) . If you are following the news of the war in Ukraine, Marc’s article ([link removed]) and this video chat may provide some religious context for life in the Ukrainian military.
There are plenty more great new pieces this week. Brian Bantum reflects on what is (or could be) unique about churches and their buildings ([link removed]) . Rebecca Bratten Weiss looks at James Joyce’s Ulysses through a post-deconstruction lens ([link removed]) . Rachel Mann argues that contemplative practice is an important response to climate change ([link removed]) .
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Jon Mathieu
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** Essays by readers: Stretch ([link removed])
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“I felt a holy invitation to acceptance. Acceptance that parts of me, stretched by the frozen weight of grief, would be broken away.” – Tamara Ramirez
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** What’s special about a church building? ([link removed])
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“How many spaces exist where you come to visit, visit again, and after weeks, months, years you realize you’ve transformed from stranger to kin, from guest to host, from the one receiving reminders to the one offering them?”
by Brian Bantum
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** Video: Marc Roscoe Loustau on Ukrainian military chaplains ([link removed])
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Jon chats with Marc Roscoe Loustau about the Ukrainian military’s relatively new chaplaincy program and the chaplains who serve there.
** In the Lectionary for June 16 (Ordinary 11B) ([link removed])
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Paul has been wounded by the church, but he is driven to keep engaging.
by Brad Roth
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** The post-Catholic Joyce ([link removed])
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“Ulysses is a novel that I appreciate more, not less, following my Catholic deconstruction—perhaps because James Joyce grapples with many of the same personal and moral questions I am working through now.”
by Rebecca Bratten Weiss
** Facing a world on fire ([link removed])
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“When I pray or come to silence, I am trying to attend to what is actually going on.”
by Rachel Mann
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