At any number of points in Saint Francis of Assisi, the book’s writers make the point that the thirteenth-century Italian mystic and friar has been many things to many people [...]
Each morning, I wake up to two stories. One is loud and distressing, shrilly demanding attention. The other is quiet, gentle and calm. One is like being caught in a [...]
The 1897 image on pages 110-111 of Jeremy Black’s A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps is a striking bird’s-eye view of Chicago, looking out across the downtown to [...]
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.” That’s St. Paul writing to the Philippians. [...]
The young woman and Sulien, an older man from another part of the world, are talking about birds and their movements together. “It’s just amazing to me how they moved, [...]
It’s a few days before Christmas in San Francisco in the mid-1990s, and Chet is a long-haired obese cat. How obese? Well, his human, a homeless guy “dirty beyond age [...]
David Ciminello’s 2024 novel The Queen of Steeplechase Park is a wild and wacky foul-mouthed fantasy about free-spirit Belladonna Marie Donato and her circle of boundary-breaking friends in the tight, [...]
Table By Patrick T. Reardon Let the sparrow take a chair at the Juneteeth table with Elijah, with Godot, with the lost tribes and the communion of saints and [...]
For Gaza's Children is a scream of protest against the oppression of Palestinians by those who have suffered oppression themselves. It is a cry from the heart against the destruction, [...]
Bai Juyi and his best friend Yuan Zhen, Chinese poets twelve hundred years ago, promoted a revival of folk culture, known as the New Music Bureau Movement. The Music Bureau [...]
