Growing up in northern Virginia, Derek Eisel had a front-row seat to a changing world. He watched forests cut down and bucolic pasture land paved over into...
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Michael Denson lives in a state where 87 percent of the residents support the death penalty. As far as the Frisco, Texas man is concerned, that's all the...
Six years ago, Sharyn Gildea descended to the darkest place a mother could possibly go. David, her handsome, sweet son, plagued by depression and drugs, hanged...
For nearly 40 years gastroenterologist Donald Douglas of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania practiced medicine in the traditional way. He worked in comfortable medical...
When Ed Smith retired from his law practice, he and his wife, Linda, dreamed of all the things they would do. But three months later, he was diagnosed with...
These people of faith are volunteering outside the box when it comes to serving those in need. Read on to learn how they are putting their faith to work and...
With a wink and a smile and a sueeze of the hand. Gilda Rodriguez naturally knows what question to ask, what personal thing to say to each person she greets...
Does the Catholic Church Practice what it preaches about a just wage? The response of church employees, ranging from lay ministers to chaplains to hospital...
Our churches are filled with potential youth leaders. They might sit a few pews over from you at Sunday Mass. They might live in your neighborhood. You might...
When I wrote a column several years ago about our church's silence on wife and child abuse, I was stunned at the number of letters I received from ordinary...
