No one's in the kitchen with Martha "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things," said Jesus (Luke 10:38-42) after a productive Martha rebuked her lazy ...

Federal Prison Camp, Maxwell Air Force Base—I was speaking to one of my friends today as we sat by the river inside the Camp. We were talking about life in ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall… I was looking in the mirror recently (I'm trying to lose weight and this is a good way to ruin my appetite…), and I realized that ...

Readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33 I live in an ugly building. It's a brown and teal low-rise that winds around a parking lot like a drunken staircase flipped on its side. Not surprisingly, the building was constructed ...

When a corporation like the Philip Morris Companies changes its name, is it a change in deed or just in word? As the umbrella company that owns such diverse products as Kool-Aid, Altoids, Oscar Meyer, and ...

I love the Easter rituals that help me connect with the emotion and significance of this holiest day of the year. So I felt particularly blessed to be present for two different sets of rites ...

Waiting (once again) on the primitive printer in our office, I stared out into space and thought idly about what I was going to eat for lunch. Times Square doesn't offer much in the means ...

Lest we forget? When the Cincinnati Bengals were in the 1988 Super Bowl (yes, really), a local radio station cobbled together rousing stadium anthems with such audio gems as "The Who-Dey Rap," and the mix was ...

Recently, I was talking with a group of socially conscious Catholic friends about money. The question came up, "How does being Catholic influence how we think about money?" Our answers were revealing. The bummer of bucks One mentioned ...

It's the early 1980's. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dan Mahowny, a Toronto bank manager whose body is as soft and slow as his mind is sharp and quick. Mahowny moves ...

I was talking with my wife recently about how someone we know shelters her children. She protects her children from the daily tragedies that she encounters and controversy never enters her ...

According to baseball superstition, the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox are cursed. The Red Sox curse came in 1920, courtesy of Babe Ruth, the Bambino himself, ...

Do "embedded journalists," that is, those assigned to cover and travel with a particular military unit, make for balanced war coverage? As a journalist I believe embedding journalists with our troops is higly problematic. Say the word To ...

Our mothers and bosses spent their careers intent on proving themselves the equals of men. The focus of their comparison on issues of freedom, autonomy, agency, and compensation was across the gender line. The force ...

From ghetto to ghetto In his 1990 essay "Can Poetry Matter?" Dana Gioia mourned the relegation of poetry to an "intellectual ghetto" where poets only write for ...

The space program is so flatly braided into my life that I use it as an alarm clock. When an orbiter (for that is the proper, NASA-ized name for the part ...

The Bible's full of angry people. Noah's mad at his sons, Moses is mad at the Hebrews, and Mrs. Job, after a day of awful luck, tells her husband to "curse God ...

This being my first year as a paying Sports Illustrated subscriber, I was watching my mailbox this week with a mixture of curiosity and indignance. It's Swimsuit Issue Season, that dreary ...

Anger Management is silly and funny and deserving of such small words. Director Peter Segal serves up a campy, if homophobic, reply to our therapeutic culture and ...

As the war in Iraq continued to rage, North Korea last week made some clear signs of its displeasure at being ignored by its traditional enemy, the United States. As news reports continued to leak that ...