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Mark Richard once wrote a poignant piece of first-person fiction in The New Yorker entitled “The Birds for Christmas.” In…

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was…

The story goes that Michelangelo used to come by St. Peter's Basilica at night to stand there before his sculpture,…

I clicked on an email link this week, not expecting that it would contain video of a house being torn…

With the end of the semester--deep in final papers and exams, set about by seemingly a thousand demands--I needed the…

It's worth a smile or two to realize how human it is, right now—a couple new inches of snow on…

“In our own lives, too, we all too often deny the grace we’ve been given in barren places…Sooner or later,…

Irish writer Colm Toibin once authored a controversial novella about the mother of Jesus called The Testament of Mary. Around…

As I move though the season of Advent this year, my waiting and anticipation of the birth of Christ has…

I'll admit, I got duped into signing up for Audible a few months back. I always sign up for promotions…