A recent interview for my blog Leaven for the Loaf (reblogged here on April 12) put me back in touch via email with Melissa Ohden, a woman who survived an attempted saline abortion some years ago. Our interview reminded me of her moving memoir You Carried Me (2018: Plough Publishing House), which I’ll be re-readingContinue reading “Open Book: Sheen, Goodwin, and “You Carried Me””
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Open Book: Welcoming Spring
Welcoming spring, observing Lent: it’s a season of new books for me. I often select a familiar devotional to read during Lent, and sure enough, there’s Fulton Sheen’s Life of Christ in this year’s rotation. I’ve added a work of fiction that’s a stretch for me on several counts: Silence by Shūsako Endō, first publishedContinue reading “Open Book: Welcoming Spring”
Open Book: on silence, a border, and Granite State history
I stepped aside this year from professional public policy work at the state level. Dear to me as that vocation was (and is), it was time to take a break from the noise. During this time of transition I happened upon Robert Cardinal Sarah’s book The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (IgnatiusContinue reading “Open Book: on silence, a border, and Granite State history”
Ellen Kolb 