I am surprised at this late stage, in my 70s, to be thinking about God. In my defense, I might…
God
Of all the qualities that the New Testament ascribes to God, compassion is among the most shocking. Compassion has nothing…
“How I’m gon keep from killing him,” says Celie, the protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel “The Color…
A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality…
Among my most treasured memories is one Christmas Day when I was around 6 or 7 years old. Christmases in…
The enduring significance of Christmas is that it represents perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Christian faith — the…