Angeling 6 | welcome to the have it all mall
Jonah didn’t know exactly what he expected to see when he stepped from the elevator, but he had a vague sense that it would be something mysterious and otherworldly. A […]
Angeling | 5: dead people don’t wear bellybuttons
The instant Jonah let go of his grandfather’s hand, his shadow jerked him backward, hard—like a parachute suddenly braking a skydiver’s fall, but in reverse. Okay, that was a bad […]
Angeling | 4: over the brink of eternity
“And that is why we always wear a helmet, people,” Campbell quipped as he stood over Jonah, who lay unmoving where he’d landed, slightly to one side of home plate, […]
Anna should not open the door for the beautiful woman in black. How many times have her parents warned her against opening the door for strangers while she is home […]
Ransom was so small that the state highway department noted its existence only by the SPEED LIMIT 40 sign on the way into town and the SPEED LIMIT 55 sign […]
Soon as it was night, out we shoved; when we got her out to about the middle, we let her alone, and let her float wherever the current wanted her […]
Anyone who has ever joined the Winona Catholic Worker as a live-in volunteer has inevitably had The Conversation with his or her family and other relatives. With surprisingly few exceptions, […]
THE RIVER FLOWS SOUTH, AND ALL THE FLOWING WATERS OF half a continent run to it—morning dew, whole gray-white fields of melting snow, rain running down rooftops and cascading through […]
Short Fiction
- Ascension
The crab apple tree was in full bloom, glowing white in the moonlight. Cathy stood underneath it, her small mouth slightly agape as she looked up into a […]
- Angeling | 3: without death, life wouldn’t be half so precious
“I’m going to kill that Grubinski kid,” Alaska muttered darkly. “Wouldn’t that go against your Quaker beliefs?” Jonah asked. Alaska wrinkled her nose. “I’ll convert.” Alaska and Jonah […]
- Leaving Ransom
Ransom was so small that the state highway department noted its existence only by the SPEED LIMIT 40 sign on the way into town and the SPEED LIMIT […]
Books
- Living Justice and Peace: Catholic Social Teaching in Practice
Saint Mary’s Press, 2008 | Religion | 336 pages The second edition of this text has the same sound theology with updated stories, images, and statistics! The Living […]
- Touching the Hearts of Teens: Saint Mary’s Press, 1943-2001
Touching the Hearts of Teens: Saint Mary’s Press, 1943-2001, is a history of Saint Mary’s Press, the small Catholic publishing house run by the Christian Brothers of the […]
- Answering God’s Call to Covenant
Saint Mary’s Press, 2005 | 95 pages Answering God’s Call to Covenant helps older adolescents consider where they want to go in life before they encounter the crossroads […]
Essays & Articles
- Home on the River
Soon as it was night, out we shoved; when we got her out to about the middle, we let her alone, and let her float wherever the current […]
- The Catholic Worker is a Fool
Anyone who has ever joined the Winona Catholic Worker as a live-in volunteer has inevitably had The Conversation with his or her family and other relatives. With surprisingly […]
Other stuff I’m up to….
Peanut Butter & Grace is a website and (soon) a book about the stuff that holds families together.
Hold On Tight! tells the ongoing story of my son Alex's journey from a Ukrainian orphanage to his new home with our family.
About Jerry Windley-Daoust
