In the days before the inauguration of President Obama, I happened to be reading a biography of the English abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759 and 1833), written by Eric Metaxas. The timing …
A high level of anticipation marked both this nation and the world as 2008 went into the history books and 2009 dawned. This anticipation came from three sources that I can …
It still has magic power. Across the Western world hearts beat lighter during the Christmas season, generosity expands and romance overflows its normal boundaries. Of course, there is a …
Ari Goldman, the former religion editor of The New York Times (and not coincidentally my favorite secular religion newspaper writer in America during my active career), once …
Hosea is probably my favorite of all the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures. His story is so real and so compelling and his expansion of the meaning of God …
George F. Will, a columnist and regular political pundit on George Stephanopoulos’ Sunday morning ABC talk show, is a doctrinaire, but not an unthinking, political conservative. He did in …
An autobiography entitled Opportunity Time, written by A.
Linwood Holton, the Republican Governor of Virginia from
1970-74, has just been released by the University of
Virginia …
The bishops of the world-wide Anglican Communion,
together with invited ecumenical and interfaith guests, will convene
on the campus of the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, on
…
It is historically very difficult for a majority
culture to understand the emotions felt by a minority culture living
in the same land. In the 1850s a group …
I am now convinced that there are no sunsets more beautiful
than those that blaze through the evening sky in New Mexico. Perhaps
it is the juxtaposition of …