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Oct 22, 2025
Never take the south road to Chaco Canyon. No one gave me that advice, though, so I did. It’s what Google Maps told me to do when approaching, as was I, from Santa Fe. The road...
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Sep 24, 2025
The psychedelic revival is in full swing. My fellow Wheaton College alumnus Rob Bell counsels young seekers to try everything—the “whole buffet.”...
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Aug 19, 2025
There are upsides to going to a college where students aren’t allowed to drink. It means that on a Friday night, fun-thirsty youth deprived of their keg parties instead pile...
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Jun 17, 2025
In 1966, a Trappist monk from Kentucky’s Abbey of Gethsemani had an affair with a nursing student. Her name was Margie, and you already know his. Thomas Merton never intended...
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Jun 3, 2025
The Christian mystics had also always been there, until it seemed as if they weren’t. The Quietist controversy of the late seventeenth century put mysticism under...
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Mar 18, 2025
A visit to Mary’s tomb outside Jerusalem in no way exhausts Christianity’s underground dimensions. The next day I found myself in Bethlehem. The journey from Jerusalem...
