Dennis Covington

Dennis Covington, who died in April 2024, was the author of six books, including Salvation on Sand Mountain, a finalist for the National Book Award. His final book was Revelation: A Search for Faith in a Violent Religious World.

Broken Heart Syndrome

Living with, and without

By Dennis Covington | Friday November 24, 2017

The Bloody Theater of the Texas Mennonites

Faith in the cancer ward

By Dennis Covington | Friday November 17, 2017

The Hindenburg Line

In memory of Uncle Brother

By Dennis Covington | Friday November 10, 2017

The Well

More than a change in the water

By Dennis Covington | Friday November 3, 2017

On Truth Telling and Dictatorship

A journalist reflects on the value of a free press—and the consequences of its subversion

By Dennis Covington | Tuesday October 31, 2017

The Inner Above

A place to read and daydream and be alone

By Dennis Covington | Friday October 27, 2017

Caprock

Adventures worth the silence

By Dennis Covington | Friday October 20, 2017

One Nation Under God

The contentious role of Christianity in politics

By Dennis Covington | Monday March 6, 2017

Manifest Poverty

Poor southern whites have long been a people without a country

By Dennis Covington | Monday June 6, 2016

Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons

The power of specificity

By Dennis Covington | Monday November 30, 2015

Caprock

By Dennis Covington | Thursday April 18, 2024
Sunset over Gettysburg battlefield

Rising Again

By Dennis Covington | Monday July 22, 2019

The Death of Innocents

By Dennis Covington | Monday September 17, 2018

The Old Home Place

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 23, 2018

Freelancing

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 16, 2018

Drought

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 9, 2018

Piercing the Veil

By Dennis Covington | Friday March 2, 2018

Coming Home

By Dennis Covington | Friday February 23, 2018

Happy All the Time

By Dennis Covington | Friday February 16, 2018

Leaving Alabama

By Dennis Covington | Friday February 9, 2018

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