Frederick Buechner Archives

What’s a ‘Buechner’?

Buechner has come to feel less like a name and more like a noun.

Larry Parsley / 8.29.22

Corresponding with Buechner

I wrote him a letter once and God bless him, he wrote back.

Mischa Willett / 8.24.22

In Memoriam

Frederick Buechner (1926-2022)

Mockingbird / 8.15.22

Anyone Who’s Played a Part

Hope on the Road of Despair

Guest Contributor / 2.19.20

The Gospel Is Bad News Before It Is Good News

Mockingbird / 10.21.19

Dive Bars and the Nazarene

This one was written by Matt Magill. It is good to be inebriated on the […]

Guest Contributor / 7.12.19

My friend John and I are the sole members of an organization we call “The […]

Larry Parsley / 2.28.18

It must have been Mockingbird that first introduced me to the “genius of Ken M.” […]

Larry Parsley / 4.18.17

I. The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds […]

Ben Self / 4.11.17

Why Won’t You Apologize?

“Okay,” [Charlotte] conceded. “Anything I did that was wrong, I apologize for. “But,” she added, […]

David Zahl / 2.23.17

Originally published in The Forgiveness Issue of The Mockingbird magazine. Somewhere in North Minneapolis in […]

Ethan Richardson / 9.24.15

Our family of four was shopping the other day (and by shopping, I mean my husband […]

Stephanie Phillips / 9.9.15

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