Anointed with Clay

by Hans Boersma

This is the gospel of Lent: He anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2023

Ross Douthat on Living with Lyme

by Mark Bauerlein

Ross Douthat joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery.  Continue Reading »

17 Jan 2022

Grace

by Patricia Snow

On a hazy afternoon in late May 1986, I wait, as I wait every weekday afternoon in a parking lot in Branford, Connecticut, for my son to be dismissed from school. While I wait, I listen to Ceci, another mother new to the school, whose son is in my son’s class. She is telling me about her car. From . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

Letter to an Aspiring Doctor

by Theodore Dalrymple

You tell me you are thinking, my dear Stephen, of medicine as a career, but you wonder whether you have the ability or the temperament for it. You say that you have wanted to be a doctor ever since your family practitioner visited you at home as a child when you had severe tonsillitis. He seemed a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018

Healing the Dying

by Lydia Dugdale

At our annual reunions, my brother and sisters and I often joked that we flew home every year because “this might be Grandpa’s last.” We wanted to be sure to say one final goodbye. The odd thing was, we had been saying this for twenty years. Grandpa just didn’t seem to die. And as the clock . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2016

Healing Memories through Divine Mercy

by William Doino Jr.

Remembering God’s Mercy draws upon Holy Scripture and the great Catholic spiritual masters—particularly Jesuit saints such as Ignatius of Loyola and Peter Faber—to discuss painful memories through the lens of Christ’s Passion. Continue Reading »

4 Jul 2016

Other Plans: Journal of an Illness

by James Andrew Miller

I Ihad spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of books and notes I was using for a major paper on Transcendentalism, due in draft at Cleveland State University in the Graduate English program. Sunday afternoon, too, was reserved for this endeavor. Sunday . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1993