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Christine Havens

Christine Havens is a writer and a graduate of the Seminary of the Southwest. She is passionate about literature and theology. Her work has appeared on Mockingbird Ministries’ blog, Mbird, and in Soul by Southwest, the seminary’s literary journal.

On the Hunt for Relics

M.T. Anderson: “I wanted to write a historical novel with the love of a good story, incidental detail, and willful inaccuracy demanded by the European Middle Ages.”

The Remains of St. Nicholas’s Day

Nicked By M.T. Anderson Pantheon, 240 pages, $28 Nicked is a great-hearted, mischievous novel. The story, the characters, the theological exploration nicked my heart straightaway. M.T. Anderson deftly weaves...

‘A Smaller but More Responsive Church’

The Diocese of Easton, which a decade ago was contemplating a merger with one of its neighboring dioceses, now understands itself as a resurrected small diocese.

Austin’s ‘Cool Church’ Welcomes SXSW Concertgoers

For 16 years, St. David’s has been a venue for music during the festival, offering radical hospitality both to audiences and performers.

‘This Life, This Rich, Anchored Life’

Christine Havens reviews I, Julian.

Trinity on the Hill Serves Post-Oppenheimer Los Alamos

Los Alamos is a company town — 70 to 80 percent of the population works for the lab, and rector Mary Ann Hill loves the nerdy aspect of her congregation (her license plate is Luke Skywalker’s call sign, Red 5).

Searching for Answers

Asteroid City crosses multiple boundaries, exploring the anxieties and the questions surrounding human existence, taking inspiration from a wide variety of sources.

Tempered by the Holy Spirit: Clergy Metalworkers

Episcopal priests Diana Wright, Jeremiah Griffin, and Matthew Hanisian are among a growing number of clergy taking up metalworking and blacksmithing.

St. Mary’s, Hillsboro, Texas

In discussing their parish, Roberta and David Skelton offer a simple description of those attracted to St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Hillsboro, Texas: “Happy people.”

‘What Are We Looking at Here?’

Cormac McCarthy’s prose is wonderfully sparse and poetic. His disdain for punctuation lends itself to the apocalyptic and eschatological themes inherent in his work.