“Covid swept away a number of our distractions and so, at least in principle, allowed us to wrestle with the questions that really matter.”

‘You surrender to what is. Covid taught me this.’

‘Hope is an active verb. You don’t have hope if you just stand on the sidelines.’

A conversation with Michael Kurek, author of “The Sound of Beauty: A Classical Composer on Music in the Spiritual Life.”

Perhaps this Advent, which will probably feel a lot more like Lent, I will finally learn that good waiting is a grace, one that hinges on realizing that the arrival does not depend on my vaunted stage-managing powers.

Coronavirus health restrictions created profound obstacles for the communal relationships and interplay of everyday life at L’Arche communities.