“The stillness. Ah, the stillness. When there is absolutely no movement in the wind, and you are beyond the hum of motors, it becomes a tangible presence. If you are still and not breathing, you hear the blood pulsing in your... Read More

“Being a Jinn is something Nadine is proud of, but she is also fearful because of how she is treated. This is something that parallels, I think, to many immigrants and children of immigrants. People have a pride for who they are, where... Read More

“If the mystery of the Resurrection continues in history, then we should be prepared to seek Christ not among the dead, in the empty tomb of the past, but to discover today’s Galilee (“the Galilee of the Gentiles“), where we will... Read More

“My personal epiphany as a writer came from this advice: think of your book as a movie in which you’re presenting scenes to the reader. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a vivid detail is worth a few hundred.’’ —Alex... Read More

“I know I have three audiences: Queer teens and their peer allies; adults who are allies to those Queer teens (including librarians, teachers, parents, and other family); and Queer adults who are reading for their inner... Read More

If your grandmother is eighty years old and when she was a child of five met a woman who was eighty and when that woman was five met a man who was ninety and when he was five met a woman who was a hundred and continuing back, consider... Read More

A recent Pew study found that a third of Jews younger than forty don’t think of Judaism as their religion as much as they view it as their ancestry or identity. That identity may include adhering to a few Jewish rituals and... Read More

Today’s featured book, Otter Country, got us thinking about the other kind of otters—captive ones—and how humans have chosen zoos as the main way they interact with their fellow earthly creatures. That’s a sad fact. But whether... Read More