“For he purrs in thankfulness when God tells him he’s a good cat.” Eighteenth-century English poet Christopher Smart was a complex man. A gifted poet and writer, a successful magazine editor and composer of music
I love a beautiful book. And A Year With the Church Fathers is certainly beautiful, with its gilded pages, its ribbon marker, its beautiful art, its presentation page! I could smell the soft leather when I tore
Lent is a season of penitence: Giving up chocolate. Turning off the TV. Fasting from between-meal snacks, and abstaining from eating meat. It’s also a season for personal growth: Prayer. Reading. Reflection. So who says you
Everyone loves a bargain! And readers love the works of English writer, philosopher and apologist G.K. Chesterton. So I thought I’d share this outstanding deal which came to my attention: Fifty (FIFTY!!!) books by Chesterton, in
“The name of God is mercy. There are no situations we cannot get out of, we are not condemned to sink into quicksand.”—Pope Francis The message of God's mercy has been paramount in Pope Francis'
My fingers tugged at the wrapper, and I held my breath as I rushed to open Detroit’s Historic Places of Worship. I’d visited many of Detroit’s oldest churches through the years, and I was looking
Today I write to tell you that you MUST read this book. Jeni Stepanek, a mother who is herself afflicted with the genetic disease which took her four children, wrote Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie
When Little Portion Hermitage burned to the ground in 2008, I was working at a treatment center for clergy and religious; and I can still remember the morning when a co-worker popped into my office
I was going to completely ignore the Kendrick brothers' newest movie WAR ROOM. I'd read some sullen reviews by critics who complained that its religious theme was a no-brainer ("Prayer is good"). Its simplistic plot, said those critics, failed to
Did you know that Edgar Allen Poe once penned a hymn to Our Lady? Poe, the tortured poet of the American Romantic Movement, is best known for his stories of mystery and the macabre--stories like