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April 2017

April 24, 2017
April 23 celebrates the date of the martyrdom of St. George, a little-known saint by Americans,...
April 19, 2017
PBS recently aired an episode called To Walk Invisible, exploring the short, vaulting and tragic...
April 13, 2017
The Thursday before Easter Sunday is called Maundy Thursday in some traditions. I have attended...
April 06, 2017
by Wendy Murray Amid the perpetual dissent that arises from President Trump’s many actions and...
April 04, 2017
By Wendy Murray Continuing my conversation with Fred Rogers on the day we met in...

March 2017

March 30, 2017
by Wendy Murray A man keeled over and hit the floor hard one morning when...
March 28, 2017
By Wendy Murray This posting marks the first of what I hope will be ongoing...
March 23, 2017
by Wendy Murray I heard a pundit say recently that “Jesus probably would have been...
March 21, 2017
By Wendy Murray In church the other day, as the pastor gave his sermon, a...

May 2015

May 09, 2015
Many faded photos of women in horn-rimmed glasses and puffy hair are popping up on...

April 2015

April 09, 2015
This post concludes the five-part podcast series titled Moneychangers, in which we have explored with...

February 2015

February 23, 2015
A Conversation with Ben Zoba about Money, Part 4 In this installment -- the fourth...
February 05, 2015
In this third installment of our conversation with local farmer and community activist, Ben Zoba,...

January 2015

January 26, 2015
A conversation with Ben Zoba, Part 2 of 5 In this second of five installments...
January 19, 2015
A conversation with Ben Zoba, Part 1 of 5 The post-holiday season stands as a...

October 2014

October 14, 2014
A Review of When Francis Saved the Church, by Jon Sweeney (This review is part...

April 2014

April 02, 2014
Alistair McGrath's new book If I Had Lunch with C.S.Lewis is a short volume with...

February 2014

February 05, 2014
                  By Wendy Murray Yesterday, February 4,...

January 2014

January 20, 2014
By Wendy Murray Today is  Martin Luther King,.Day, which also marks the release of a...

December 2013

December 31, 2013
By Wendy Murray 1.  Don't Interrupt Talk ought to be sacred because it is so...
December 30, 2013
By Wendy Murray Dear Friends and Readers, I have been on hiatus from posting and...

October 2013

October 04, 2013
Saint Francis of Assisi died 787 years ago today, and yet he seems more alive...

August 2013

August 15, 2013
  People will judge you, of course. That is my point. Determine in your heart...
August 10, 2013
Clare of Assisi died 760 years ago tomorrow (August 11, 1253). Yet she remains as...

July 2013

July 28, 2013
One of the most confounding and at the same time consoling passages in the New...
July 21, 2013
  Only in an airport are human beings compatriots in a netherworld of suspension, neither...

June 2013

June 13, 2013
The hidden life of Clare of Assisi (119-[something] to 1253) is forever bound to that...
June 03, 2013
I have had the privilege and shared in the glory of seeing two of my...

April 2013

April 24, 2013
Ah, Spring ~ the season that inevitably, and rightly, hails a punishing schedule of weddings....
April 05, 2013
Many of you are aware that I am a beloved devotee of St. Francis of...
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