Psalm 137 reflects my longing to return home, even as I am aware that I have idealized it in my earnest efforts to not forget it.

One who is blind from birth will always be blind. That is what my medical training teaches me. My faith, however, gives me hope for a different outcome.

We are never more ourselves than when we express ourselves.

Richard Powers’s brilliant novel, ‘The Overstory,’ which won the the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a story about people who feel a kinship with all ecological life.

The Psalms lengthen the moment, enlarge the experience and connect a private experience to those of other human beings. Wonder fades if we do not “back it up.”

How does theology bear witness, speak to what remains, finally, unspeakable?