RESIDENT EXILE

“But Jesus answered them, You give them something to eat.” Mark 6:37 Most of us at one time or another has been assigned a job that...

For Joe...... Ashes to the river you loved toasting moonshine to your smile Tears and laughter and the mountains witness Our sudden...

The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past. ― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the...

I woke up this morning with the tragic news that nine people were killed last night at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston...

Lent and Holy Week bring out strange media events. There is the parade of "exposes" by all manner of skeptics that propose to offer new...

Van Morrison is the John Donne of blue-eyed soul*. Into the Mystic is my personal favorite. It is rare for a song or poem to be equally...

The silence was actually getting to me. Instead of welcoming the solitude as an opportunity to pray and work on multiple projects, it...

My political worldview was permanently imprinted by the events of 1968. On TV, I watched soldiers and children dying in Viet Nam; Martin...

This week I was invited to give a guest lecture on St John of the Cross’s Dark Night of the Soul and I was reminded what an amazing but...

There is no difference between blood and blood. A murderer is a murderer, no matter his nationality and age. There is no justification,...