Faith, Fiction, Friends

My wife and I have joke about PBS: When all else fails, do  Downton Abbey  or some variation on the theme. Reruns, fundraisers – it seems at...

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered beginning in 1947. A group of Bedouin shepherds discovered clay jars almost a thousand years old in des...

Since his death on Monday, people have been writing about Wendell Berry (1934-2026). Including me at  Tweetspeak Poetry . Below are quite a ...

This past Thursday was the 250 th  anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn. The army of George Washington lost the battle – and the American R...

Benjamin Franklin is rightly considered to be one of America’s founding fathers. But there was also his son, William, who had an entirely di...

We have mobile phones, but we still have a landline. And according to caller ID, the most common caller we get on that line is someone I’ve ...

Given the number of movies, plays, poems, and novels about the man, you would think that the entire planet knows King Arthur was obviously a...

My parents were both profoundly affected by the Great Depression. My father, graduating from high school, saw his hopes for college and a me...