Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely w
Terrance Klein
The Rev. Terrance W. Klein is a priest of the Diocese of Dodge City and author of Vanity Faith.
Posted inIn All Things
Crossing Lines
Maps have border lines The earth itself does not Human life demands drawing boundaries but God rsquo s life knows none While we live we constantly claim what we consider to be our own and we define ourselves both by who we are mdash and who we are not If religion were entirely divinely wrough
Posted inFaith, In All Things
The Stormy Life of Muriel Spark
What do you do when your education, at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls, only equips you to teach secondary English or to work in a department store, and yet you’re educated enough to feel the lugubrious weight of Edinburgh skies? If you’re Muriel Camberg, you take the first ticket out of Scotland, even if […]
Posted inThe Good Word
In Rouen Cathedral
Historian David McCullough rsquo s newest offering The Greater Journey Americans in Paris includes a roadside stop between harbor and metropolis in Rouen to see its cathedral He writes The Americans had never beheld anything remotely comparable It was their first encounter with a Gothic ma
Posted inTelevision
Chicken Little Gets Her Gun: TNTs ‘Falling Skies’
Catch a glimpse of America’s ballistic soul on ‘Falling Skies,’ the popular new sci-fi series on TNT.
Posted inIn All Things
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an academic in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a book And that doesn rsquo t mean a Kindle or an iPad We need books whose pages we can fold whose lines we can mark in whose margins we can correct the author with our own quips That rs
Posted inThe Good Word
An Outrageous Indulgence
George Swanson Starling spent most of his adult life in Harlem working as a train porter but the Black American had been raised in the racially segregated South picking fruit for pennies an hour in Florida groves Like many of us George had envisioned a very different life than the one he got
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
American Exceptionalism and Christian Humility
Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet ag
Posted inIn All Things
American Exceptionalism and Christian Humility
Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet again
Posted inArt
The Storyteller’s Art: Rediscovering Norman Rockwell
Though often spurned by critics, Norman Rockwell has always been popular.