Paul Sohar/Poetry

  Szent János Kórház   by Paul Sohar This July our yearly vacation in the family summer home on Late Balaton in Hungary started beautifully; the lake was smooth, the sun was pleasantly warm and so was the family atmosphere. I usually tried to do some work in...

Thad Rutkowski/Hard Biking

HARD BIKING   by Thaddeus Rutkowski It’s raining, and I’m on foot, heading for my parked bicycle, when I see a bike go by with two umbrellas attached to it. One umbrella is over the main rider, and the other is over the back wheel, as if to protect a small...
Ellen Jantzen / Photographer Spotlight

Ellen Jantzen / Photographer Spotlight

©Ellen Jantzen Amplification Photographer Spotlight Coming Into Focus   In this series I am exploring the realm of one’s environmental surroundings, how it is absorbed into one’s psyche and how this changes through relocations. In these days of refuges relocating...
Education/Henry A. Giroux

Education/Henry A. Giroux

Protesters display signs at the National Day of Public Education demonstration against rising tuition costs at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 24, 2014. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue) *** Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in...

Merton as Mentor

  Father Louis: Gethsemani’s Creative Writing Teacher   By John Smelcer and Paul Pearson Common knowledge has it that Thomas Merton wrote extensively during his nearly three decades at the Abbey of Gethsemani. His writing included poetry. What most people...