Spiritual Witnesses
Women Saints: 365 Daily Readings, by Madonna Sophia Compton, with Maria Compton Hernandez and Patricia Campbell, provides reflections on holy women
Culture Watch
The Editors 1-01-2007
Danny Duncan Collum 1-01-2007
The poet, musician, author (and senior citizen) keeps it real- and keeps it coming.
Jim Rice 12-01-2006
How would Mahatma Gandhi confront terrorism today? And what action would the apostle of nonviolence take in response to the wars waged in the name of anti-terrorism?
Joseph Wakelee-Lynch 12-01-2006
There may be no more basic lesson in persuasive writing than the futility of creating a straw man: Sketch a loose summary of an opponent’s argument in order to dismiss it with ease.
Obery M. Hendricks Jr. 12-01-2006
Jesus was a political revolutionary—not the meek figure he is commonly portrayed as—whose teachings have been diluted, if not corrupted, by those in positions of power, writes Obery Hen
Tobias Winright 9-01-2006
The authors connect the dots between Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and those who influenced them.
Betty Spackman 9-01-2006
The difference between messaging the truth - and being messengers of the truth.
Steve Thorngate 8-01-2006
This day is filling up my room,
Is coming through my door.
Oh, I have not seen this day before.
John Potter 8-01-2006
Is a movement of post-punk, justice-seeking, Jesus-following musicians on the rise?
Danny Duncan Collum 8-01-2006
Neil Young's Living With War reopens the channel between artist and audience.
Julie Polter 8-01-2006
Like a cluster of traffic cops, insurance adjusters, and whiplash lawyers at a multicar pileup, writers of all sorts are trying to make sense of the dangerous intersection of faith and politics in