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In last year’s election campaign we were reminded that images can overpower words. The U.S....

I grew up in an apartment on the 12th floor of a World War II era red-brick apartment building in lower Manhattan, with my parents and a goldfinch....

Paul Rusesabagina, a member of the Hutu majority tribe in Rwanda, is married to a member of the Tutsi, the minority tribe that colonial powers installed as the nation’s rulers in an interference ta...

"Spirituality” versus “religion” has become a defining conflict of our time....

Is Alberto Gonzales qualified to be attorney general of the United States? By some measures, yes....

When Sister Mary Corita was asked to submit a piece of her artwork for consideration in the Vatican exhibit at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, she chose to do a piece on the Beatitudes....

The vagaries of the calendar and the cycles of the moon bring in an early Lent and Easter this year, and so the transfiguration has come early too, cutting short the season of Sundays after Epiphany. Unexpectedly, we find ourselves back up on the mountain with Jesus. We were just there to hear him describing those who populate the kingdom of heaven. Now he returns, not with all the disciples this time, but only the insider troika of Peter, James and John.

There is no such thing as The Gospel in the same way that there is no such thing as a circle....

While I know no poem in the language greater than Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland," and confess a supremely warm spot for Joyce Kilmer's cozy but forgotten "The 12:45," a favo...

Though he was one of the most significant English...

It has always been easy to romanticize a “golden age” of preaching. Clyde Fant contends that it’s always three generations ago....

Are old animosities to blame for the recent rise of religious and ethnic violence around the world?...

Harvard Divinity School’s 2002 Religion in the Feminist Movement Conference drew overwhelming interest...

One of the rewards of reading Louise Erdrich’s fiction is that she takes us into a world few people know, that of the Ojibwe people, who follow traditional wa...

In 1994 Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager in Kigali, Rwanda, risked his life to help save more than 1,200 men, women and children from the ethnic cleansing that wiped out nearly 1 million Rwandans...

The leader of the Western world stands before his compatriots and outlines a...

Men my age are “bridge fathers.” We began being fathers in one era, and before the last child left the nest we realized that fatherly responsibilities and expectations had changed significantly....

Red Sox fan George Sumner was on his deathbed last October, and things didn’t look too good for the Red Sox either....

Ticking time bombs: The vanquished of war, says war correspondent Chris Hedges, rarely speak about the horrors at the time....

As a sixth grader, Hazel Gonzalez was constantly in trouble. A member of two gangs, she was in the principal’s office daily....