• More than the Last Rite

    What does a chaplain actually do? During college and for several years that followed, I was already known as an “adrenaline junkie” — someone who loved being an EMT, running hot in emergency vehicles, extricating people from wrecked cars, and going on search and rescue calls. There is a term that may more accurately describe…


  • What Remains

    A Reflection on Yiyun Li and the Grief We Were Never Meant to Finish. Some books teach. Some books inspire. Some books comfort. Yiyun Li’s Things in Nature Merely Grow does none of those things — at least not in the ways I expected. I picked it up because she lost two sons, and I…