Incarnation Monastery in Berkeley and New Camaldoli in Big Sur, California I. VIGILS The genius of the monastic life is its balance. The balance of prayer and work, ora et labora, is...
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Go Find Your People KAYA OAKES Years before the 2016 election, those who were paying attention noticed that faith-based activism was showing signs of a resurgence in the United States. Black...
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Last of the Beats KAYA OAKES L awrence Ferlinghetti's one hundredth birthday in March was the occasion for a lot of celebration in San Francisco. Perhaps trying to counter its image as an...
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Kaya Oakes Burn & Shake LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA My parents got married in 1962. My father was a Californian, the child of Californians. My mother was born to Californian parents, but in icy, flat...
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Kaya Oakes The Soul of San Francisco Silicon City San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley Cary McClelland Norton, $26.95, 272 pp. We talk about what's closing. We talk about who's...
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LAST WORD A Smiling Skeptic Kaya Oakes Montaigne was a skeptical writer who lived in a deeply religious time. For contemporary essayists, he is also the closest thing we have to a literary...
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Kaya Oakes Faithless Generation? IN SEARCH OF OTHER GEN-X CATHOLICS For several years now, I've suspected that my entire generation had vanished from Catholicism. On retreats, I was surrounded by...
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A Crush on God How a Young Priest Helped Me Hear Jesus Kaya Oakes I meet him at a building at the top of a steep hill. A trickle of men, all of them clean-cut and casually dressed for the...
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