A few years ago my mother said, "Today is Good Friday. Why don't come to church with me tonight?" Oh no, I thought. Not the church talk again. "Mother," I explained for the hundredth ...

Spring arrives, and young people's hearts turn to?terrorism. On screen It must have been just about the 21st day of March 2004 that I walked into the Columbus Circle subway station, approached a ...

Seeing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was a profound experience. I left the theater with very mixed feelings. The film reflects Jesus' willingness to embrace his own humanity to the degree that he would ...

Sex sells. Or so they say. But I think "they" are wrong. I think what they mean is that partly naked people, a hint of genitalia, and the bright (though often ...

Crystal Ball v. Gore On the evening of the 2000 election, I sat before Judith Regan Live watching a psychic make a prediction about the outcome. "We won't know who won for a ...

As my husband Scott and I packed up our apartment to move, I came across a box of my old diaries. I could barely lift it. It held twenty-seven ...

There I was, flying 13,000 feet in the air without an airplane. I was plummeting 120 miles per hour toward the earth, with my arms and legs outstretched. I was ...

What is it about falling leaves, the scent of smoke in the air, and pumpkins propped on the front porch that turn me into the Tasmanian Devil of ...

The two reports released Friday, February 27, 2004, on sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy are unprecedented in the history of any institution. When the reports, one conducted by the National Review Board of the U.S. ...

"Ok, now make a right at Lenape in .6 miles" I said, squinting at the passing street signs as if by brute concentration I could make the next sign ...

I'd been cleaning for weeks. It started the week before Thanksgiving; I had nine coming for Thanksgiving dinner and was damned if I didn't have a clean and organized ...

All marriage as moral danger? "Nothing is so powerful in drawing the spirit of a man downwards as the caresses of a woman," St. Augustine ...

Of soccer and marriageMarriage is the union of man and woman aiming to form a family. That's its essence—its minimum requirements—and we have ...

With the much hyped anticipated opening of Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ on the first day of Lent 2004, Christians ...

Many people have a hard time with winter. Up North where I come from the days are short and gloomy. The cold is bitter and winter is long. The holidays, cloaked in joy and celebration ...

Mrs. America Attractive, hospitable, gracious—eager volunteers. This is the traditional image of the First Lady of the United States. Since there is no official job description for the wife ...

I never thought that I'd find a spiritual lesson in a show run by Donald Trump, but The Apprentice ...

When I count to three, please say the name of a loved one with whom you want to have a better relationship. Someone you want close to you. ...

A man set apart by God When George W. Bush was governor of Texas and decided to run for president, he described his decision in terms of a divine mandate: He had ...

Love, me, and the cosmos in FebruaryEvery year when Valentine's Day rolls around, I become philosophical. Who am I? Why have I been placed on this earth? Why am ...