Joshua Whitfield
May 30, 2019
Truth is a writer’s first responsibility. To conquer the lie, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said.
May 22, 2019
Maggie Whitfield interviews Melanie Newman of the Salem Red Sox…
April 22, 2019
It is hard to describe the loss of Notre Dame. When the poet Rainer Maria Rilke lived in Paris, each evening on his way home, he stopped as he crossed the Siene on the Île de la Cité to watch the sun set over Notre Dame. The darkening ancient towers silent against the new, awakening, electric […]
April 27, 2024
We must be quite careful how we interpret these words of Jesus. John’s gospel is in every syllable a mystical text, and so one must take care not to read these words superficially or to misread them entirely.
April 21, 2024
You’ve often heard me say how our experience of Christianity, of the Church, is so very different from the Church of the past, from the Christianities of long ago.
April 14, 2024
It was a strange and gutsy thing to say, dangerous to interpret: what Peter said.
March 31, 2024
Happy Easter, everyone! Welcome to us! I hope you got the seats you wanted!
March 31, 2024
I’m a bit confused by the gospel reading we’ve just heard, this passage from Mark.
