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There is a common claim made that the distinction between Muslim and Christian understandings of...

Is there any hope of a bridge being build between traditional religious communities on the...

 In Memory of the New York Draft Riots of 1863      Hear, O Africa, cradle...

I’m the kind of person who must “meet” people. It is the only way I...

There is painful, and there is very painful. This revisionist cinematic production of James Fennimore...

Trinity Sunday is often joked about in Christian circle as that day anyone can easily...

It is my heartfelt belief that history, and historical figures, are as inherently complex as...

There is nothing like inhumanity to remind us that we are human. Tell yourself all...

“The people of the city, young and old Were all lamenting, crying, sighing loud The...

The news seems to be flooded these days of terrible updates. From killer viruses to...

There are pathetically few movies that are able to deal with political themes and still...

The following is a rather lengthy response I made to a Muslim friend who sent...

There is a legend in the Rhondda Valley of Wales about a young shepherd named...

In the month of May, Catholics focus particular attention on the role of the Blessed...

As one of the only movies to make a Catholic English Martyr its main focus,...

It all started one Christmas as I rummaged through the CD racks at the library,...

Stereotyping all things “other” has been something of a given in the history of humanity...

The world is turning faster and faster and faster, and so many of us feel...

In order to get to heaven, is it only necessary that we be a “good...

Poetry is a language often able to penetrate more deeply than prose into the nature...

One of the first things that struck me about the character of Professor Severus Snape...

Deep in a tangled forest, there dwelt four sisters whose mother, a wood-wife, had died...

One of the objections that has been raised frequently against the Christian concept of redemption...

My first encounters with the legends of Robin Hood are, in many ways, the memory...

There once lived a man named Darrick, with strong arms and bulging muscles, a smith...

My childhood memories of Holy Week, when Christians the world over commemorate the Passion, Death,...

Christ comes to us in strange ways, in blessedly strange ways. I remember a day...

In the Passion Narratives of the Four Gospels, the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate,...

With the rapid spread of Covid-19 shutting down a good chunk of world affairs and...