It was shortly after 4 a.m. when the midwife asked me if I wanted to help deliver the baby.

Remove your shirt and you just look dorky. Holding your watch over your heart? Weird. But removing your hat is sort of like kneeling before the Lord, without the threat to your knees.

A society that moves beyond Tolerance to Love, particularly learning to love others with very significant differences, learns to truly value others and learns how to build a society in which real diversity exists.

C.S. Lewis said of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, “Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron: here is a book which will break your heart.” April Clark continues a four-part series, illustrating the beauty of the fellowship.

C.S. Lewis said of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, “Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron: here is a book which will break your heart.” April Clark continues a four-part series analyzing the book and exposing her pierced heart.

C.S. Lewis said of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, “Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron: here is a book which will break your heart.” April Clark begins a four-part series analyzing the book and exposing her pierced heart.

Are the sexual metaphors explored by Pedro the Lion’s Control, Bill Mallonee’s Love Cocoon, and - dare we say - the Bible too much for contemporary Christianity?

While the Scottish Reformation has tended to be dismissed by most people as the machinations of religious fanatics and zealots - obviously not people in the lead to be considered champions of democracy - its impacts upon political thought were nothing short of revolutionary.

Let us consider life – even, I suppose, what life creeps into our sterile order. And even beyond life, let us consider all of creation – everything that we say has being, existence; be that matter or energy or however it is vogue to define it.

Horror stories have a unique aspect of first distancing ourselves from the characters (or at least the monsters). We see the atrocities they commit, and we recoil in horror. But then we’re hit from an unexpected angle: the humanity of the monsters, and how close they come to our own sins.