Hobbits, as everyone now knows, are little people, with lackadaisical ways and furry feet.

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

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

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

Paul Krugman on our "gratuitous" recession

Jesus and race in America