During the recent Olympics, these perfectly round spots began to show up on athletes. You probably heard them referred to as "cupping," a...

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(With apologies to W. B. Yeats) Blowing and blowing in the river winds the trees cannot bear the weight; Trees fall apart; included bark...

This is The Bishop’s Institute for Ministry & Leadership August 2016 book review of Carmen Bugan’s "Releasing the Porcelain Birds." Note...

Suppose we were to...draw the outline of a circle.... Let us suppose that this circle is the world, and that God is the center; the...

On Friday afternoon at 3:30 one week ago, I trudged into the house after a long hard first week back to teaching, and my mother and my...

It was just a quick trip to the grocery store to get food for dinner. My Chinese son, aka Lulu, and I were preparing for his last meal at...

Born on this day in 1770, William Wordsworth is known as the Father of Romantic Poetry, his most famous work "The Prelude" thought to be...

In literature, George Gordon, Lord Byron is often referred to as "mad, bad and dangerous to know." He was churlish and ill-mannered but...

I've been reading a lot about Martin Luther King Jr. lately. A couple of days ago was the anniversary of his last speech. One story I...