Blog Threshold It never occurred to him to see me, exhausted and falling to pieces, alone in that room with my mother…Debra RienstraFebruary 4, 2023
Blog Chaptering Our Lives Best-selling memoirs tend to tell big, dramatic stories—getting sober, the messy divorce, the cancer diagnosis, the series of lovers, living…Debra RienstraJanuary 21, 2023
Blog Church of Empire, Church of Refugia, 2047 and Beyond We’re all speculating here, I guess, with the understanding that the speculation is itself a process of hope: what do…Debra RienstraJanuary 7, 2023
Blog The Re-Gifts of the Magi: A Tiny Christmas Fantasia A journey to who-knows-where to see who-knows-what without the proper supplies. We’re crazy.Debra RienstraDecember 24, 2022
Blog Advent in the Wasteland I propose that Advent is the time when we are allowed—even encouraged—to be honest about our disappointment, our sadness, our…Debra RienstraDecember 10, 2022
Blog Lifelines Things break, disturbance and disruption come along, there’s a mess to clean up. In our culture, our churches, our politics.…Debra RienstraNovember 26, 2022
Blog Pious Petunia Canvasses the Neighborhood You’ve exchanged friendly hellos while fetching the mail, and now you wonder: who are these alien beings? Debra RienstraNovember 5, 2022
Blog What is a Vote? What does a vote mean? What do we think it does? What is, you might say, our theory of voting?…Debra RienstraOctober 22, 2022
Blog Yet More Books for Your Night Table Here are some recent gems I would commend to you. If you can make it through the serious theology, you’ll…Debra RienstraOctober 1, 2022
Blog We’ve Forgotten How to Read Our brains are altered by swimming in digital media, its allures and distractions. And our lives of continuous partial attention…Debra RienstraSeptember 3, 2022