The period of “Ordinary Time” makes up the bulk of the church year, and we’re in the midst of it now.  But this past spring,

“Before acting in this play I philosophically didn’t have a problem with the death penalty. What I’ve learned is that the problems lie in implementation.”

For years youth ministry has been a rapidly growing focus in both Catholic and Protestant Western Christianity. Churches are creating more and more openings for

If anyone ever deserved a little break, I thought as I drove to the Muskegon River after school that Friday afternoon in October, I was

Ten years ago, Richard Hughes of Pepperdine University and Theron Schlabach of Goshen College organized a small working conference with an awkward title: “Peace Thinking

One of the best things about living in a Northern climate is rounding the curve that takes us from winter to spring, from cold to

At what point do you correct a parishioner about his insistence that he has prostrate cancer?  How do you break the good news to him

On December 21, 1992, I wrote a letter to Bobby Knight, then coach of the Indiana University basketball team.  I sent a similar letter on