When friends of ours suggested we get a group together and go bowling last weekend, I knew I wouldn’t have any trouble selling my family on the idea. We love bowling.Read More

I wish we had a litmus test to identify the people who deserve our praise. But it won't ever be simple. We are all sinners.Read More

It is precisely religious faith that will awaken courage and compassion, and it is precisely the lack of faith that conduces, by a short road, to spiritual and psychological exhaustion—both in the individual and in a culture.Read More

Words can hurt, and words can heal. Words can divide people or build bridges.Read More

If I can put in my snow request for the season, I would like one good snowstorm—maybe six inches or so—and then we can head into spring.Read More

Intellectual conversion begins when we start asking questions and challenging assumptions.Read More

Pastries for Parents. It’s such a lovely idea. You’ll take your child to school a half-hour early and sit in the cafeteria and talk about school and life and meet their friends and other parents. That’s the dream. The reality? Everyone has to wake up early, which naturally sets the whole day up for success....Read More

Social media pronounces that there has never been this much discord and downright hate in our nation. I wasn’t around for the Civil War, but do recall the mess that was 1968.Read More