August 15-22, 2016

'At the Existentialist Café,' by Sarah Bakewell

"The World's Oldest Church," by Michael Peppard

"Joan Chittister," by Tom Roberts; "Two Dogs and a Parrot," by Joan Chittister

Among one group of nuns at the end of World War II, the shadow of the cross is impossible to escape.

Home water, why?Cold sunlight, new heavenstrikes the shallows of white,wavering tissue, new earth.They are here,gaining the still pool,a million salmon bones.Soul flood. Head down.Study this hieroglyph, stunned. Metal-skinned swimmerscrash from the hurtling channelto this blinding delta,where m

“For great is the might of the Lord; but by the humble he is glorified.”

Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?”