sacraments of grey-haired ladies

they’ll all spend their heavens doing good on earth

Dec 3 • 

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November 2025

Levertov in Union Station

"In the Mercy of God" in Merciless Architecture

Nov 24 • 

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on earth as it is in heaven

Are you allowed to be poor if you are beautiful? Or beautiful if you are poor?

Nov 18 • 

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6

touching grass

unsuccessfully grappling with reality

Nov 14 • 

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3

October 2025

a pro-life homily

From the Sweet Unrest Archives (Spring, 2019)

Oct 31 • 

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2

the prophet is the one who feels fiercely

on the moral imagination of the newspaper

Oct 23 • 

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9

patience is (the worst) virtue

ode to Thérèse, giver of roses

Oct 1 • 

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2

September 2025

hannah's prayer

"we create life and we destroy life, but we have no idea what it is" -- Marilynne Robinson

Sep 24 • 

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2

the thing with wings

On not just loving, but hoping in, our neighbor with Rebecca Solnit and her new collection of essays for a people in despair

Sep 11 • 

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5

August 2025

breath marks

from the bon secours garden

Aug 22

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sweet unrest in the streets

or: recent headlines

Aug 15 • 

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"the only world possible"

recording the shape of pain

Aug 12 • 

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