We assume that we understand what we read and our first instinct is to evaluate — to “like,” “share,” or…

Hannah Matthews uses her firsthand experience as an abortion doula to explore people’s experiences with abortion in her first book,…

If people recognize Harriet Beecher Stowe, it is as the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But she was also familiar…

I got Covid last week, and it knocked me right out. Which meant I spent a lot of time on…

Everyone was quite certain that the Lord was teaching us a painful lesson by withholding the rain.

The title of today’s RJ blog is borrowed from a chapter title in a book of essays by the late…

One of my first tastes of freedom was driving a car, alone, with sole control of the radio. It was…

It’s tomato season.  I’m not sure I can convey the physical weight represented by those three words. The eight Roma…

We’re not talking about a language, or a dialect, or even current slang, but rather those little ways of speaking…

I don't know where Dad got his hair cut regularly, but I remember that a trip to Cedar Grove, just…