Faith, Fiction, Friends

The Nicene Creed is 1,700 years old this week. Dennis Sansom at Mere Orthodoxy explains how it came to be created, and  why it’s still impor...

After 2 Samuel 9:1-13   A kindness shown, a steadfast love displayed, to the son of his friend slain in battle, the grandson of the man who ...

A psychosomatic illness is one in which an individual imagines a sickness; it may be as real to the person as a real illness. A somatic illn...

Hisham Matar won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for  The Return , the story of his search for his father, who’d been kidnapped and presuma...

Poet Luci Shaw died last week, age 96. She would have turned 97 on Dec. 29. The news prompted an outpouring of memories, comments, shared ex...

The Christmas issue of Cultivating Oaks Press is now online, and I have a short story, “ The Christmas Nobody Wanted .” It includes essays, ...

Born in 1940 in what was then the  British Mandate  and what would become the state of Israel, Avi Lanir enjoyed only a short life. He died ...