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Jonathan Kozol's book, "Amazing Grace," is about his interviews with children living in the worst areas of the Bronx in New Yo...

Writer Esther Gillette eloquently describes Christmas as  A  candle  with haloed ray quietly giving   itself away Christmas is, indeed, a...

Growing up on a farm I can especially identify with the following piece by one of my favorite poets, Wendell Berry. His reference to "A...

He'll judge the needy by what is right, render decisions on earth's poor with justice.               (Isaiah 11:4a the Messag...

In Barbara Robinson’s "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," six members of the Herdman family, "absolutely the worst kids in the...

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God.                                  - 1 Peter 2:10 a For he himself is our ...

Some years ago I read about Mike Sherer, a Lutheran minister, who with his wife Kathe, a registered nurse, decided to celebrate Christmas wi...