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
- 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 […]
- Angeling | prologue: the echo of a song
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. —Thomas Merton It was the sound of his mother’s voice […]
- All Passages by Water Lead Home
“Look, Jim! It’s more cool bovine scenery,” Annie, who had just taken over driving, said cheerfully. I glanced up from the map I was studying (being in the […]
Books
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- Primary Source Readings in Catholic Social Justice
Saint Mary’s Press, 2007 | 232 pages God calls each one of us to work for justice in the world. It is a daunting task that we do […]
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
