End of the Year Thoughts & 2010 New Year’s Resolutions
Well, looking back on my New Year’s resolutions from last January, I’ve been a dismal failure this year. I started a photography class but dropped out because I’m too busy. I’ve made progress on the...
View ArticleConsorting with Mormons in Montpelier
I meant to go to mass this morning—I actually trekked through Montpelier, Vermont yesterday, to seek out a Catholic church and to find out what time mass was this morning. But instead, I found myself...
View ArticleWomanhood, Fertility, & Identity
In college, my best friend once described her hips as “child-bearing hips.” She knew back then that she wanted children and, indeed, now has six beautiful and healthy daughters. Me? I didn’t even know...
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Justice in an Unjust World
Last May, while I was traveling around South Africa, a relatively new Christian told me the story of his salvation. He knew God was real and God was good the day God gave him a beautiful house at a...
View ArticleHistory and God’s Miracles
Because I’ve been reading a lot of biographical picture books lately, and because I’m working on one of my own, I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between history and our personal...
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A review of mine on Feminist Review
Feminist Review has published my review of Jennifer Baichwal’s film, Act of God: Meditations on Lightning, Life, and Chance. Feel free to check it out.
View ArticleSeeker
Recently, I was talking with a close friend who is considering leaving the Catholic Church over the pedophile scandals. His wife, a cradle Catholic, works with abused children and is outraged at the...
View ArticlePrayer for my…advance review copies
Advance review copies of This Thing Called the Future went out today and my publisher sent me a link to a YouTube video of Urban Dance Squad singing “Prayer for my Demo” at a 1990 concert…. Here it is:...
View ArticleInterview at Through the Tollbooth
Read an interview with J.L. Powers at Through the Tollbooth! Q: What about this novel makes you most proud? There is absolutely nothing on the market like it! It is young adult magical realism, set in...
View ArticleThis Thing Called the Future Kirkus Book Review, April 15, 2011
This Thing Called the Future by J.L. Powers Set in an impoverished South African shantytown where post-Apartheid freedom is overshadowed by rampant AIDS and intractable poverty, this novel takes a...
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