The Scale and Hierarchy of Warriorhood

The Scale and Hierarchy of Warriorhood

With the expanding war, I’ve been thinking about the detonation of bombs into childhoods.  In the deep interior of Mexico last week at Villa de los Niños in Guadalajara, Mexico, I walked paths and found myself falling into new friendships with three American...
The Flesh God Puts on Ghosts

The Flesh God Puts on Ghosts

The sister saw the boy approaching like a ghost emerging from a parched wilderness. He looked to be 11 or 12; his eyes were enormous and glazed over. The sister from the Sisters of Mary community knew these were the hunger eyes of the East African plains. When she...
Hidden Evil and the Few Rescued Ones

Hidden Evil and the Few Rescued Ones

The driver steered his car down a backcountry road that split canopies of great oaks, whose moss dripped from its long branches like Louisiana tinsel. The hardly-traveled road is a place where hawks soar over towering tree tops and deer and wild boar roam unencumbered...