I recently finished reading Shusaku Endo’s Silence in preparation for the film adaptation by Martin Scorsese that will be released on Christmas day. It’s a haunting story

A bit before sunset on Christmas Day I ended the day of our Lord’s birth picking up toys and the contents of a diaper bag

by Jeff Munroe When I was 15, I sent Olivia Newton John a love letter. I thought of that embarrassing letter the other day when

by Allen Schipper What’s happening now is that they are stealing a lot of our good stuff. Not only have they stolen our message, but

by Chad Pierce Liar, addict, adulterer, doubter… imagine if we were known, and labeled, by the worst five minutes of our lives. I made the

by Heidi S. De Jonge December 2006. I sat in a chair in the room just off the side of the chapel at the Dominican

Among many evangelicals (or whatever they should be called these days), the tension between science and faith is real. Today, many are dismissive of ‘silly’

Dubuque, Iowa is a middle-size city on the Mississippi River where Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin meet. It’s a rather gritty river town, now splashed with

We’re two days into the Festival of Faith and Writing, one day still to go. There’s plenty to be anxious and sorrowful about these days,