Common Life, Robert Cording's fifth poetry collection, is informed by religious faith and enacts it.
Culture Watch
Dan Nejfelt 3-01-2007
Historical reflections on war often lead to the conclusion that the past is prologue, that the same ones are fought again and again, from the Peloponnesus to Afghanistan, from Vietnam to Iraq.
Lyndsay Moseley 3-01-2007
Something is bound to go terribly wrong when so many Christians see the planet as an unimportant holding place where we await salvation; or when preachers and teachers of the faith place too much e
Heidi L. Thompson 2-01-2007
Eva Mozes Kor was 9 years old when she and the rest of her family stepped off the train at Auschwitz. Within seconds, she lost sight of her father and two older sisters in the crowd.
Dale Hanson Bourke 2-01-2007
The problem with a disease defined by an extraordinary number of dead, infected, and orphaned is that it is all too easy to lose sight of the individual.
The Editors 1-01-2007
Spiritual Witnesses
Women Saints: 365 Daily Readings, by Madonna Sophia Compton, with Maria Compton Hernandez and Patricia Campbell, provides reflections on holy women
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.