A sacrament is an outward symbol, a visible sign of inner divine grace.  Traditionally, there are seven of these, ranging from baptism to confession to marriage.  But in Dancing After ...

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. It doesn't make much sense, does it?   The book itself makes much more, though it is a bundle of paradoxes. Alexandra Fuller ...

rednoW Favorites 2007. Life has a rhythm to it - the changing seasons (for those of us who live in a part of the world ...

Imagine a world void of color, dominated by slight variations of black and white. Grey skies, ash covered fields, charred skeletons of trees and buildings. There are no birds, no ...

In her book entitled Walking on Water, Madeleine L’Engle recalls that “as a child, it was through story that I was able to make some small sense of the confusions ...

It was interesting. While reading The Open Curtain, which tells the (fictional) story of a troubled Mormon teenager, I had two Mormons come to my door this weekend. ...

All I can really say about Dave Eggers' latest novel, entitled What is the What, is the following: this book is very, very important.   Don't ...

Whenever people hear that I'm an avid reader, their next question is: What should I read? This is, of course, idiotic. If I tell people ...