Jessica Mesman

Horror movie mom

If what remained of my family prayed together the night my mother died, I have forgotten. In…

Recent studies in epigenetics provide scientific evidence for what the Old Testament writers knew: According to multiple…

Religious horror is a film genre in its own right, and Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist are among my all-time favorites.…

Read my cover story for the May issue of the Century.

I’ve been obsessed with Sinead O’Connor since she tore up the pope. I wrote about her memoir,…

I’m not willing or able to let go of a relationship as transformative as a relationship between…

I find myself repeating a prayer cribbed from Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux): “Oh Lord,…

Thanks to Sister Julia Walsh for inviting me to be her guest on Messy Jesus Business. We…