Donovan McAbee

Oct 28, 2024 | yahoo.com | Donovan McAbee

When I step into the voting booth next week, I will participate in making my voice heard on local, state, and federal issues that range from a local transit tax, all the way to who will represent me in the U.S. House, Senate, and ultimately who will be our next President. Like millions of Americans of faith, my religious beliefs will be the central factor in my decision-making process.

Apr 5, 2024 | gardenandgun.com | Donovan McAbee |Gabriela Gomez-Misserian

I have no clue what the upstairs neighbors must have thought. I wouldn’t call what I was doing at the time singing—more like a semimelodious howling while strumming a guitar. Back then I correlated sincerity with volume, and at twenty-three, I was nothing if not sincere. That spring, I had taken a semester off from seminary and was spending my days on Long Island with my terminally ill mother, reading William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and George Herbert. I was trying my hand at writing too.

Nov 21, 2023 | time.com | Donovan McAbee

IdeasNovember 21, 2023 7:00 AM ESTMcAbee is poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in TIME, The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun (US), and a variety of other publications. He has spoken widely in university and congregational settings throughout the US and the UK. He works as Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. On Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 Jillian Ludwig’s family returned home to New Jersey from Nashville.

Oct 3, 2023 | thesunmagazine.org | Donovan McAbee |John Scotto |David Mahaffey |Jen Silverman

It started with the mouse in the grass by the sidewalk, ants crawling on its face. Aidan wanted to touch it. I drew him back and held him. We talked about the gray fur and the tiny ants. He asked if the mouse was going to go home to his mama and daddy. No, I told him, the mouse won’t get to go home again. Maybe he goes to play with his friends. No, I said again, the mouse won’t get to play with his friends.

Oct 2, 2023 | thesunmagazine.org | Tom McAllister |Jen Silverman |David Mahaffey |Donovan McAbee

In my New Jersey neighborhood it’s become kind of a thing for people to decorate their front lawns with skeletons year-round. On New Year’s they put little party hats on them, give them a champagne flute to hold. On Mardi Gras, beads draped around their necks, maybe a cigarette clamped in their jaws. Fourth of July, all kinds of red-white-and-blue regalia. During the long stretches between holidays, the skeletons rest. Most often in Adirondack chairs. Maybe it’s like this all over the country.