Father Mychal Judge: Ladder to a Bridge
There are few individuals who can climb ladders and create bridges to those who are threatening violence and to quietly speak the words we can't say t...
Category: Spirit/Religion/Theology
Heaven Knows, This is a Heartland
A Christian is, quite honestly, the last thing I’d want to be considered when I hear the versions put forth by candidates whom God has allegedly cal...
Patrick the Pit Bull–Sometimes it Takes a Dog’s Spirit
Those caring for Patrick have said that in spite of all that he has suffered, he is gentle and trusting. Sometimes it takes a dog's spirit....
Patrick the Pit Bull: The Story in His Eyes
Never try to tell me that animals don't have a spirit, for I will not believe you. It is there in his eyes, an awareness, a world-weariness, a sadness...
Kolaches and Transcendence in New Prague
The bright sunlight outside illuminated the windows as we stood in the silence, and the centuries seemed to pour through them along with the light. W...
The Reasonable Thing
I searched for each of their names as I stood before the Wall of Memory and Truth in San Salvador on a bright day in March earlier this year: Jean D...
War and Peace
Hope is being packaged and sold these days in glossy dollops; you can open a book or a magazine or tune into a talk show to find numerous people hawki...
The Lovely Ordinary
What is larger than life than this? The sun is setting; I have made a breakfast of bread and milk for the morning, my dog is lying by the front door, ...