This past week, a friend pointed me to a fascinating interview with Tom Holland. Holland is a leading English author…
Jared AyersMay 31, 2020
I ’m reading the novel The Plague by Albert Camus at the moment. It’s set in French-Algerian Oran, and follows…
Jared AyersApril 8, 2020
The rooster jolted me awake at 3:45am. I was on a tour group led by Marlin and Sally Vis, midway…
Jared AyersMarch 11, 2020
When I had journeyed half our life’s way,I found myself within a shadowed forest,for I had lost the path that…
Jared AyersFebruary 12, 2020
A few nights ago, I sat down into the worn blue chair crammed into the corner of my sons’ bedroom,…
Jared AyersJanuary 15, 2020
I love having talented friends. Several weeks ago, my friend Bruce, who leads an artists’ collective I appreciate, told me…
Jared AyersDecember 18, 2019
Simeon sang one of my favorite Christmas songs. You may not think of Simeon’s Song—the Nunc Dimittis—as a chart-topping Christmas…
Jared AyersDecember 30, 2018
Mark Richard once wrote a poignant piece of first-person fiction in The New Yorker entitled “The Birds for Christmas.” In…
Jared AyersDecember 23, 2018
Irish writer Colm Toibin once authored a controversial novella about the mother of Jesus called The Testament of Mary. Around…
Jared AyersDecember 16, 2018
