They "pray, pray" that family members can get out of northern Iraq before a major Islamic State attack.

"Despite all divergences, we believe a political compromise is still possible," the bishops said in a Dec. 2 statement.

After one of my own teenage students was murdered, Emmett Till's grave became a place of occasional pilgrimage for me.

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“We’re trying to do something for our nation,” says Taylor Charging Crow. “We’re risking our lives. We’re risking our families.”

A crucified God is not the status quo, and it is isn’t made into the acceptable, the intellectually palatable, by the proclamation of the resurrection.

All of us have interior afflictions that paralyze us, like the unnamed ailment that ravaged the man in Luke’s Gospel and left him motionless on a stretcher.

The decision is a victory for the several thousand camped near the construction site.

Complacency is an occupational hazard of participating in a two-thousand year old belief system.