What do we see when we look at the horizon from a comfortable place? It’s a distant spot that we may visit, but it can remain just barely in sight for quite a while if we aren’t moving. Especially if ...

When I was talking last week about the span of generations, we were looking past the ubiquitous Baby Boom to Gen Xers, Millennials and Gen Z. They’re now watching children grow up, kids who are ...

You can post your pictures of fireworks on social media, but will anyone really look at them? We all know fireworks on a screen, TV or computer or phone, are not at all like watching them in person.

This Sunday’s readings offer three different lenses to examine what is perhaps best left mysterious: how faith works within one’s tradition. “Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, ...

In the U.S. Constitution, it’s spelled out fairly specifically in Article VI, the third clause: “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, ...

In her May 23 op-ed column, "The New Temptation of Democrats," Ruth Marcus asks an important question concerning Democrats and the issue of faith: "What does it profit a party to gain a demographic ...

In America’s farm country, there is a steady heartbeat that pulses throughout the fields—the faith community. It’s not confined to Sunday sermons or midweek Bible studies. It’s in the calloused hands ...