I have a friend who is a permanent deacon. He’s a former Marine, and though he is wonderfully kind, he can also turn on his military face and voice to let you...
Articles
A traditional Chinese proverb teaches that “women hold up half the sky.” Women also hold up half the church. This truth may have been on Pope Francis’ mind...
Millennials are hesitant to pass judgment on the importance of marriage, but that doesn’t mean they don’t believe in saying “I do.” The closing scene of the...
c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) In a scene in the movie Selma, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sits in a jail cell wondering where the civil rights...
Bonnie “Prince” Billy (Drag City Records, 2014) “Keep Louisville weird” is a slogan you commonly see around the Falls of the Ohio, on...
c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Catholic environmental groups from around the world on Wednesday (January 14) announced a new global network to battle...
It is no secret that religious life is at a crossroads. As the church celebrates the Year of Consecrated Life, the number of men and women in religious orders...
c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Chris Kyle, often described as the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, wrote in his autobiography that he...
c. 2014 St. Louis Post-Dispatch DITTMER, Mo. (RNS) A quiet street and a quaint three-bedroom home drew Mike Stenzhorn and his family to Dittmer 15 years ago...
By Karen Armstrong (Knopf, 2014) You can almost hear Richard Dawkins crowing. From the terror instigated by ISIS to the strife in the Central African Republic...
