Maryknoll Father Ron Hennessey was courageous, open to life, funny, welcoming, wise, a brilliant political strategist and holy - very holy. Simply put, he was one of the best human beings I have ever known.
Culture Watch
Lisa Yebuah 8-01-2005
As shareholders in Gods eternal story, we commune with a creating God and are drawn into fellowship with a global community. Our stories become shared experiences.
Rose Marie Berger, Molly Marsh, Lisa Yebuah 8-01-2005
An Indigo Girl - and dad - talk about music as the mediator between God and our souls.
Tobias Winright 8-01-2005
The number of executions in the United States has decreased in recent years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, as has citizen support for capital punishment. A major reason is the increasing concern that innocent people may be sentenced to death.
Deryl Davis 7-01-2005
For novelist Graham Greene and his characters, corruption could be a path to salvation.
William O'Brien 7-01-2005
Many people of faith sense that these are trying times. But some are recklessly hopeful enough to believe that Gods Spirit may be breaking in on our society in ways both new and ancient.
Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2005
In Lewis Hydes masterpiece The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, he writes, "A market exchange has an equilibrium or stasis: you pay to balance the scale. But when you give a gift there is momentum, and the weight shifts from body to body."
Elizabeth Palmberg 7-01-2005
Noreena Hertz is an economist whose writing is not only clear - its often lively. Hallelujah!
Diana Butler Bass 6-01-2005
Ten years ago, historian Mark Nolls important book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind began with a powerful indictment: "The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." From there, Noll attacked evangelical anti-intellectualism and issued challenges to remedy the problem.
Joseph Nangle 6-01-2005
This stern word to North American Christians from our evangelical sisters and brothers in Latin America poses the perennial - and ultimate - question: Are we Christians who happen to be Americans or Americans who happen to be Ch
Bob Hulteen 6-01-2005
Too many media outlets have decided that the political divide in America pits the red against the blue. In true Final Four fashion, one wins and the other loses.