As I write these words my country is in mourning. Television commentators speak in hushed voices of the calamity that is upon us. Their guests

I am writing in response to David Timmer’s article in the January 2005 issue of Perspectives, “Same-Sex Marriage: Crisis in Society, Summons to the Church.”

Late last fall, as I looked around my classroom, I suddenly realized two things about my students. (Naturally, neither had to do with the topic

My father has been negotiating some dark passages of late. He’s in his mid-eighties now, and the edges of life are starting to pinch in.

Every twenty years, Bethlehem has beckoned me. In 1964, seventeen years after the outbreak of what Palestinian Arabs call “The Disaster” (an-Nakbah) and Israelis call

Over the last three decades a major cultural shift has taken place in the attitudes of Western societies toward the future. Optimism has given way

“Abuse is use without grace; it is always a failure in the counterpoint of use and enjoyment.” So argues Joseph Sittler in the title essay

You just never know when Easter will come. Suppose that on January 1 of any given year, someone handed you a brand new calendar. Then