Archive - Attention and Astonishment

A Contemplative Guide to Praying the News

One answer to the question, "What is mine to do?"

Jun 9 •

May 2025

White Smoke and the God of Surprises

On Our Most Endangered Resource: Hope

May 9 •

April 2025

Days to Weep, Days to Grieve

Being Human During Holy Week 2025

Apr 17 •

March 2025

In Praise of Crying Out

A Full-throated Response to a Constantly Escalating Disaster

Mar 26 •

February 2025

Bread for the Resistance

Reading Recommendations for the Apocalypse

Feb 27 •

Lessons from the Catholic Resistance

Turning to Our Forebears in a Moment of Historical Crisis

Feb 19 •

January 2025

Prophets Needed, Inquire Within

On the next four years (and beyond)

Jan 21 •

You Are Made Out of Love

Put it in your skull closet

Jan 16 •

December 2024

Letting Advent Come to You

(If You Can't Run Out to Greet It This Year)

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

About That New World...

Notes from the Land of Devastation

Nov 8, 2024 •

October 2024

Building a New World in the Shell of the Old

Hope and horror holding hands

Oct 30, 2024 •

September 2024

A Prayer You Can Hold in Your Hand

On milagros, suffering, and the concretization of the ephemeral

Sep 12, 2024 •

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