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. 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.)
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. If you are following the news of the war in Ukraine, Marc’s article and this video chat may provide some religious context for life in the Ukrainian military.
“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?”
“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.”
