’Round midnight

It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...

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English king’s remains reburied after 530 years

Maya Angelou play in development by Tavis Smiley, Kenny Leon

NC considers Indiana-like religious objection legislation

Anti-Semitism in US spikes after nearly a decade of decline

Arkansas, like Indiana, passes a ‘religious freedom’ law and Wal-Mart objects

Suicide: many questions, few answers

By Doyle Sager Springtime — a season of hope, right? Not for everyone. According to studies, more suicides occur in the warm, sunny days of spring and early summer than any other time of year. In the northern hemisphere, suicides…

Why do so many Christians think we need government to prop up Jesus?

In a recent Facebook post, Franklin Graham praised Indiana’s House of Representatives for passing a “religious freedom” bill “that would protect business owners who want to decline to provide services for same-sex marriages.” Religious freedom, which has been a hallmark…

Same-sex marriage and the intractable knot of freedoms

Same-sex marriage has tied American society into a seemingly intractable knot. Advocates of one great value pull a thread that ultimately tightens and restricts another cherished principle. And vice-versa. Human rights vs. religious liberty.

The death of god (or 5 ways to make people mad on the Internet)

Let’s be honest, blogging is sexy. Like an aphrodisiacal wine, crackling fire or bearskin rug, few things bring our raw and inchoate emotions to a startling head quite like a breathless 750-word epitaph elucidating the grizzly details of parenthood and/or…

Community rallies to rescue, nurture elderly immigrant

By Ashleigh Bugg Irene Calderón is 78 years old with a face full of sun-warmed wrinkles and a voice that lilts like music. “Ma-mitaa, cómo esta niñaa” — the words moved up and down when she laughs. The small Peruvian grandmother…