You know Dasher and Dancer, Rudolph, Prancer and Vixen.... But do you know Noel?

A new book shows Bishop Robert Barron's ambitious plans to evangelize culture in the United States.

Every now and then, one comes across a book that seems unique. Its authors, editors and publisher are not so much meeting an already-expressed need as they are anticipating (or creating) one.

The angry shards of crimson, roaring through the tube/ Running through the fields of gentle greens and sprinkled/

My god is patient. She curls like ivy around a crumbling world,/ And howls in the stillness of the night, the silent spaces no ritual can fill.

In a roundabout way, Pullman does Christians a service by writing his anti-Christian books.