In 2002 Spike Lee came out with the compelling film 25th Hour. Edward Norton plays the lead, a convicted drug felon who has 24 hours of freedom before his...
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Historical Jesus scholars all agree that Jesus was a Galilean first-century Jew. He was born of a Jewish mother, was addressed by his followers as “Rabbi,”...
A few weeks before my husband and I started a Catholic marriage prep program—what most people refer to as Pre-Cana—I started chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s...
It was time to call in the big guns—Mary, the mother of God, and some industrious cherubs. I’d been wrestling with several impossible problems. Talk therapy...
One in five American children grows up poor, vulnerable to the physical, developmental, and neurological effects of poverty. The American Academy of...
“Love is patient; love is kind.” So begins the world’s most popular wedding reading, one we have heard so often it no longer grabs our attention. No longer...
It’s impossible to fully understand God. So humans come up with metaphors to try to explain our conviction of a loving God who holds us in community with each...
Tobias Winright’s first exposure to the life of a police officer came from a somewhat unlikely source: his mother. After his parents divorced when he was 10...
Some years ago a friend underwent radiation treatments for cancer. Hair loss was to be expected, and my friend had already been bald on top for a while. Yet...
There’s an old joke about two pastors discussing the problem of bats in the attic of their respective churches. “I’ve tried everything,” Father Brown complains...
