The Other Side of the Moon

252,756 miles from home. God was there. Already. Three days ago, four human beings were 252,756 miles from home. You read that too quickly. Not 252 miles. Not 2,500. Two hundred and fifty-two thousand, seven hundred and fifty-six miles from everything you treasure, find reassuring or familiar. Breath-taking and at a distance from Earth greater than any human… Read More »

The two Stones

What you can and can’t roll away. Easter is just over our shoulders. The tomb is still fresh in the imagination, the pre-dawn silence, the women moving through the early morning light with spices in their hands, braced for grief and tears. They had come to do something. Something tender and necessary. Something that, as it turned out,… Read More »