After the priest and the Levite have passed by an injured traveler, the Samaritan man is moved with compassion, providing first aid and then medical care for...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
With more adult children moving back home with their parents due to the economy, experts agree: Establish guidelines in advance to avoid arguments down the...
So your son graduated from college, can’t find a job, and needs a place to live—what’s a parent to do? The first time Mark Bolich Jr. stayed...
A Franciscan environmental activist recycles some ancient traditions for modern use. [Read more about St. Francis, patron of ecology.] Hundreds of years before...
Two decades ago a remarkable woman died. The New York Times carried her obituary; the Jackson, Mississippi NBC affiliate televised her funeral; Mike Wallace...
Nobody likes to do taxes. That includes James McLaughlin, a Chicago-based attorney with the firm Kirkland & Ellis. But there's an upside to the...
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...
