After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.