Jafar Mahallati started his professional career as Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.), where he had an instrumental role in ending the Iran-Iraq...
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In line for a roller coaster at an amusement park is an odd place for a spiritual experience. But there I was at Pittsburgh’s Kennywood Park, hot and...
Okay, so you’re master of the universe and you’ll have your way. But I don’t get why you would call this guy home so soon. He was such an unabashed guide into...
He was perhaps America’s most beloved film critic, but that is not what Roger Ebert thought he wanted to be. The way Ebert tells it, he imagined a career as a...
Most of us devote little thought to ocean-borne shipping. Yet it plays an enormous role in our lives, as around 90 percent of everything that needs to go from...
A wet knot on a pair of sneakers is hard to untie—even harder when they’re on your feet. As the pastor of a multigenerational, multicultural, and multilingual...
I was in a tiny wooden town in Alaska recently when I walked past a tiny wooden church. I find small wooden sacred places irresistible, whether they are...
Do you own a Bible? I don’t mean in the sense of having one gathering dust on a bookshelf but in the commitment sense of the word own. Can you say...
Thomas Gabriel, a Syrian refugee, considers the events of the past three years nothing short of a miracle. In 2014 he and his family faced likely death in the...
The ethics of meat consumption and vegetarian diets deserve a Catholic consideration. I suspect “Catholic” is not the first identity marker most people think...
