I remember sitting on the counter in our kitchen as a little girl watching applesauce ooze out of the little holes of our Victorio strainer’s

As I enter the sixth month of my life away from the Netherlands, away from home, I find myself evaluating some of the changes that

One of the joys of reading fiction–especially good fiction–is that in the midst of the narrative which keeps you turning pages, turning, turning to find

The scrap of pita bread dissolves on my tongue, my saliva moistening it, breaking it down as I let it rest on my taste buds.

Here’s how I imagine it. She knows he’s there but she waits, time being of little consequence, after all. He died in the fall, when

Although Jesus often used similes to describe the Kingdom of Heaven, he tended to use metaphors to talk about himself. “The Kingdom of Heaven is

The Magnificat is important to me. I pray it several times a week. I pray the daily office only once a day, so I alternate

When is “not as bad as,” bad enough? “Does the Qur’an say that it’s alright to beat your wife? ” A Muslim friend is talking