Our Mennonite friends came from several ethnic backgrounds — Swiss-German, Low German, Russian — with histories of persecution and emigration to Pennsylvania, Virginia, Canadian prairie

Their eyes light up at the possibility that they can use their spiritual tradition to discern what’s valuable and what’s not in mass culture.

They blustered, argued, and cursed the confines they felt, but there was real energy to it. They had something to push against.

Beginning with the earliest recorded film, I’m going to watch one film from every year up to the present.

The Netflix show Derry Girls has been on my mind a lot during this stomach-churning election season. I’ll try to explain why. Set in Derry,

A while back I was watching the Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert film with my eight-year-old son. We were both enjoying the incredible display of

I’ve essentially quit Twitter/X, and my life is better for it. I joined the platform in 2008 as a young journalist hoping to gather sources,

For these Sunday posts in January, I want to listen to how people with immigration or refugee experiences find sustenance and purpose in difficult times.