By Chuck DeGroat Have I told you about the ‘lost’ chapter in my 2014 book Toughest People to Love? The book was originally nine chapters,

By Brian Keepers “So what’s the story of the Sioux?” she asks me. The question comes whistling out of the blue, or so it seems,

By Heidi De Jonge The place of prayer. There is the place of pastoral prayer: A hospital room. A living room. A bedside. A graveside.

“Beauty—from that which we see in nature to that which is expressed in words of art—, precisely because it broadens the horizon of human consciousness,

Just exactly how many wives he had—or has, since he’s only out of circulation, not breath—isn’t clear. Estimations go beyond what you can count on

I fully intended to write a political screed today. Feed the outrage machine. Bait the clicks. Gin up controversy. Hurricanes, earthquakes, mass shootings with assault

“The world feels high lonesome and heartbroken to me right now. We’ve sorted ourselves into fractions based on our politics and ideology. We’ve turned away

This is not the first time I have blogged about guns in America.   A couple of years ago I suggested that people whose ultimate vision