Eileen Markey is a contributing editor at BustedHalo®. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, City Limits and the Village Voice, among other publications. She lives in the Bronx.
When Jane Jacobs, the 20th Century urban activist and pro-city theorist died in May at the age of 89, we lost a secular prophet. Reading Jacobs' landmark resistance to modern city ...
In June 2004 Rutba House, an alternative Christian community in Durham, North Carolina, developed this list of ideals meant to shape the nascent "new monastic" movement, which includes The Simple Way and dozens of other ...
Dirty dishes, anarchist art, morning prayer and other hallmarks of a burgeoning Christian movement
They started out as good Christians. They thumbed through their Bibles, were concerned with sex and feared God. Then they started taking Christianity seriously. "This thing Jesus called the Kingdom of God is ...
I'm only five "Why's" away from an ontological crisis
What's that?I'm buckling my son into his car seat the other morning when he points to the tool used to scrape snow off the windshield."It's an ice scraper, sweetheart." ...
