The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…