The Verge of Jordan

  This is the second of two posts about my experience at the 77th General Convention of the Episcopal Church.  At this triennial meeting, al...

  This is the first of two posts discussing my participation in the 77th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, which took place in Ind...

Third Sunday in Easter On a rainy Sunday we visited a grad school professor of mine, Diane Mitchell and her husband Marko Gosar at thei...

Many of us, even those with little or no direct experience, are amused by the notion of nuns behaving badly.  The idea that religious siste...

Saturday in Easter Week By now you are probably sick unto death of references to the R.M.S. Titanic as we approach the centennial of he...

Thursday in Easter Week  "Have you ever wanted to take a young person's face gently in your hands, look into their eyes, and...

GOOD FRIDAY   She was going to be there at his end-- she who had been there with God at his beginning. She was his mother. She had fed him...

As part of Open House New York, I found out on a fluke that the TWA Flight Center at JFK would be accessible to the public for the first tim...