Jo Page

I am writing this column days before I am due to file it with my editor. That's unusual. And also--who knows what fresh hell may come betw...

Here's a tale worth re-telling. And here's the setting for the tale: Three years ago I was selling my house after a disturbing marriage a...

My poetry teacher when I was an undergrad--she, the ultra-cool Heather McHugh--taught that the key to making your own writing better was ...

How's your sleep these days? Are you sleeping like a baby or a log? Are you getting enough beauty rest, enough shut eye? Are you sleeping...

I am an ordained pastor in the whitest denomination in the United States that was founded by a medieval church renegade whose late-in-lif...

When I was in graduate school in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was the only white woman on the bus from my apartment to the University--"M...

(The title is thanks to Emily Dickinson's essential and wondrous poem.) A few months before my last trip to France a couple of years ago,...

It's Pandemic Jeopardy! And since we don't have any Jeopardy buzzers to press or enough PPE, I'll just list the answer and you can write ...

Before I became a pastor, I worked for a couple of magazines. So I am used to thinking about Valentine's Day at Thanksgiving, shamrocks i...

The hell if I know. Let's start here: The Hindu prayer goes like this: “Lead me from the unreal to the real.” The story of Lazarus is a s...

Those old-timey, old fart pastors! An aged parishioner told me that one time when he was a kid, he and a young friend ditched church to g...

During our Zoom meeting this morning, a colleague the told story of how one of her parishioners was out of onions. She said her husband h...

Elizabeth Warren ended her campaign just a couple of days before International Women's Day--ironically also the first day of Daylight Sav...

Just a few days' shy of the end of Black History Month, a four-color poster from Life Dynamics Incorporated came across my desk at church...

Confession: I actually somewhat agreed with an observation made by President Trump the other day. That was a first. You will recall that ...

"The only other sound's the sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake." Maybe you don't recognize the quote. But you probably know this part: "B...

A Christmas story for people who are all grown up: The Rev. Stephen Bolden peeled off his gloves and climbed back into his car, cranking ...

And the angel Gabriel came to Mary and said, ‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’ 29But she was much perplexed by his words a...

Oh, no! It’s that time of year when we have to be grateful again! Last year a reporter from a local news outlet called the church I was s...

The mums are wilted, Halloween is past and we have set back the clocks. Don't even try to tell me you've already adjusted to the darkenin...