Talk back to the “dark powers.”
Is it perverse that I love it when “talk back” time includes a question or comment from someone who doesn’t know Circle of Hope “the party line?” I do love …
Lent could slip onto the calendar unnoticed
Thank God we are not digging out of 20″ of snow! Lent is all-too-often welcomed onto the calendar with a wet blizzard. Not long ago, that is just what happened. …
We’re making history
Today is John Cassian Day! You are excited, right? Well, probably not, since most of us think history is, well, history. We don’t think about it. We might even try …
We’re bigger than the Eagles
Saying “We’re bigger than the Eagles,” like I was on Sunday, as the Philadelphia Eagles demolished the Minnesota Vikings, is kind of like when John Lennon said “We’re bigger than …
Mass incarceration is a civil rights issue of our day
When I was in college, I read Angela Davis’s book Are Prisons Obsolete? That tiny book has influenced a lot of my thinking about what Davis terms the prison industrial …