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 […]
December 23, 2023
Advent, as we live it out today, does I think suffer from mixed messaging.
November 26, 2023
The thing is, you see, is that heaven is closer than we think. Hell too—as unnerving as that may sound.
November 10, 2023
A few weeks back I was standing down there at the bottom of the center aisle, basket in hand, as the kids brought their offerings.
November 5, 2023
An ancient superstition: in some corners of the Christian world, it was considered a bad omen to meet a priest.
November 2, 2023
We tell ourselves we’re rational, that we don’t buy into any of that stuff—the visions, the dreams, the mysteries of the departed, our loved dead.