Larry Nassar and Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of their lives in prison. Jeffrey Epstein committed similar crimes, but he received extraordinary leniency instead of a life sentence. We need to know why. Read more
Larry Nassar and Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of their lives in prison. Jeffrey Epstein committed similar crimes, but he received extraordinary leniency instead of a life sentence. We need to know why. Read more
The main reason we say "Happy Holidays," of course, is because it's plural. The end of the year brings a steady stream of holidays -- Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's at a minimum. "Happy Holidays" covers all of them. Read more
When I was a teenager, the most piously zealous young white evangelicals wanted to go into "full-time Christian service," becoming missionaries or youth ministers. Today, the most piously zealous young white evangelicals want to become right-wing Republican legislators. Read more
We've had 120 years of Santa Claus in the movies. Here's a chance to see the very first one. (He's silent and too skinny, but still appropriately magical.) Read more
The only Advent hymn that most people remember or like dates back centuries. You'd think we might have expanded the list of beloved Advent songs since then ... but no. Read more
"I will deal with all your oppressors at that time. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise." Read more
The liturgical season doesn't officially begin until tomorrow, but now the calendar's just one page and it's time to start our annual splurge o' Christmas-y stuff. Read more
This brings us again to the difficulty of choosing precise and apt details for this particular story. The story is so implausible that plausible details seem impossible. What could such a congregation in such a setting possibly find to sing? Read more
Today is the birthday of Mark Twain, a day to be celebrated with jokes, stories and hallowed irreverence. Around here we like to mark the occasion by revisiting the greatest religious conversion narrative in American literature, a scene from Huckleberry Finn. Read more
"You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. You shall not abuse any widow or orphan." Read more
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