Jo Page

Real parish life isn’t as tantalizing as PBS’ “Grantchester” (nor most clerics the eye candy of James Norton’s priest, Sidney Chambers), ...

Now technically speaking, I do not live “off the grid.” Which is, I suppose, a good thing because I never intended to. That said, I never...

In the interest of not offering any spoilers, I won’t name the brilliant and best-selling novel I just read--oops, too late!---set during...

“…faith begins at the point where atheists suppose it must be at an end. Our faith begins with the bleakness and power which is the night...

Lord, you can help when earthly armor fails us; You can save when deadly sin assails us. --hymnwriter Matthaus A. von Lowenstern, 17th-ce...

When I was asked by the staff of the New York State Writers Insitute to introduce and moderate a discussion with Emily Witt of her book, ...

I grew up in a house full of women—my mother, my sisters, our dog--my father having died when I was nine. Like my own mother, I became a ...

Remember how T.S. Eliot in “The Wasteland” famously called April “the cruelest month”? Indeed, he did, complaining about lilacs “breeding...

When Christmas falls on a Sunday you can bet that the sanctuary, candle-gleaming and chock-full at the Christmas Eve service, will be dra...

Consider Mary. That Mary. As in the Virgin Mary.The Virgin Mary? Well, what does that even mean? When I think of “virgin” I think of oliv...

It’s Monday of Thanksgiving week and I am sitting in the tidy cottage that is my older sister’s house on Cape Cod. We are planning to pre...

Tomas Moore (1779-1852) and Thomas Hastings (1784-1872) were from Dublin and Litchfield County, Connecticut, respectively, and there is n...

It was my sixth grade teacher, Miss Kathleen Tivnan, who taught me about the four chambers of the heart and the functions of arteries and...

Three years ago, vacationing in Rome, I was mesmerized at the Piazza Navona. It wasn’t simply the masterful marble—the Fountain of the Fo...

“Every Camp Fire Girl must understand that the secret of her life, whether for joy or for sorrow, lies in herself. If she wishes success ...

This year Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and one of the two highest holy days in the Jewish calendar, begins on the day that I will pri...

I am writing this on a Saturday night, midway through the tag sale that I hope will culminate on Sunday in a mad rush with people buying ...

“For those who want to save their life will lose it…..” These are notorious words of Jesus from Matthew’s gospel. They have, for centurie...

James Baldwin's short story, "Going to Meet the Man" may be the one story we need to read in these times. Masterfully, but agonizingly wr...

Let me begin by saying that, on Monday afternoon, when I read the lessons for this Sunday morning, I was excited. Once in a very, very bl...