Wars make for gripping video. This past weekend it was dead civilians lying in the street, the open maws of suspected mass graves, and oil
The day after the Oscars, a Facebook friend of my wife’s posted, “Sure glad Will Smith isn’t white.” A jumble of thoughts went through my
We gathered on March 21 in the courtyard and the street at Kino Border Initiative (KBI) offices in Nogales, Sonora. A few dozen of us
In a vast, blazingly bright atrium, crowds of church angels mill about, carrying tote bags emblazoned with the AngelPAC logo. A huge banner draped across
I don’t want to be disagreeable. I may be feeling this way, as if I’m on track toward irascibility, given that I just passed a
“April is the cruelest month,” says T. S. Elliot. I know that snippet, not because I am a literary scholar of any sort, or a
In the final poem of Four Quartets, “Little Gidding,” T.S. Eliot begins with the observation that “Midwinter spring is its own season.” Whenever I teach that poem, I
Like every other church in the US apparently, the congregation I serve has lost people in the past couple years. It’s hard to decipher exactly
My 16-month-old granddaughter, Luna, is going through a phase in which she’s fixated with belly buttons. She toddles up, lifts her shirt slightly, points to
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