Set the Captive Free
I read my friend Dyana’s Art House America essay about her brother “definitely going to prison, and probably for a long time,” and the air went out of my chest. The fear and anger and helplessness were...
View ArticleMonasticism in Lockdown America, Part 8: Psalms, In the Beginning
I always privately hated the psalms. Most of them, anyway. As a teenager, I’d leaf through the Bible’s songbook quite often and feel it was full of self-pity and self-righteousness, often launching...
View ArticleMonasticism in Lockdown America, Part 9: Psalms, In the End
Continued from yesterday. Thinking of the psalms as a way to cycle through the entire range of human experience, I recently brought them with me into juvenile detention. The kids there, on Sunday...
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