Stuff in the Basement

I was a real rookie when I started teaching in the city. I had grown up in the loving security of a Midwestern small town where I had o...

As they pass through the Valley of Baca ,  they make it a place of springs;  the autumn rains also cover it with pools.   They g...

It will be, I'm sure, among the best books I will read all year--most memorable, most fascinating, most masterful. Kirsten Valdez Quad...

Years ago, I listened to Phillip Yancey reading from a new book of his, a book titled What's So Amazing about Grace? A couple dozen o...

Eleven months or so, that's all. A kid, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, walks into the Emanuel African Episcopal Church in downtown Charlesto...

I'd never make it as a grade-school teacher. I couldn't keep my hands off the kids.  Maybe forty of them had questions  yesterd...

The Most Reverend and Rightly Honorable Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has an impressive resume, both long and distinguished....

“ Blessed are those whose strength is in you,  who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.” What a sweet promise that is, isn't ...

[From the museum--4/5/10. Occasional old posts from yesteryear. Life has changed, truth endures.] I'm still suffering, big-time, fr...

Frank Bruni is gay, openly so. That he would sketch out a column about the Denny Hastert case for the New York Times --Bruni is one of the...

Well, he's in.  Impossible as that is to believe, Donald Trump is the Republican candidate for President, having defeated someone s...

He's not sure. The burden of his life--he's just a kid--is that he is deeply religious but simply not sure, not totally with the ...

There are surprises today, but not that many. Where weather comes from, what makes it change, and why we should expect something foul is ...

“ Blessed are those who dwell in your house;  they are ever praising you.”  Psalm 84:3 My mother thought the world of the colle...

Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty. She doesn't. It's all made up.  ...