According to the Syrian novelist Dima Wannous, the seed of Syria’s Arab Spring revolt was planted in Damascus in February 2011. A policeman insulted a shop owner, and a crowd of young workers and traders formed chanting, “The Syrian people cannot be humiliated.” The interior minist
For the Jewish people Peter Fink S J once wrote God is the one who ldquo comes rdquo who ldquo leads rdquo who ldquo abides rdquo and who ldquo hides rdquo The early Christian community appealed to the same four dynamics in speaking of Christ ldquo the Christ who comes lsquo mara
Taking inspiration from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn rsquo s seminal One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Jens Soering has written an unblinking and harrowing critique of the American prison system and what he argues is the nation rsquo s over-reliance on incarceration Soering takes readers through a
Certain dates in history have a powerful hold on the American imagination When we think about World War II we remember Dec 7 1941 mdash a date President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed would forever live ldquo in infamy rdquo Our minds also turn to D-Day June 6 1944 when Allied forces led by
You never know what you’re going to get during the dinner table family roundup of the day’s events. Our kindergartner recently told us: “The king and queen of England used to be really mean. They made everybody go to one church. They wouldn’t let people go to other churches.