In November of 1950, Uncle Sam pointed his long bony finger at my father and ordered this able-bodied U.S. citizen to do his military duty.

America owes part of its national identity to powerful myths that arose out of its early history. Some of these myths are attached to founding

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”