Freedom and Beauty
The picture shows the rough wear of its many journeys. A cheap canvas tacked to a wall then tightly rolled and unfurled again somewhere else.…
iraqi refugees
Friday of the Second Week of Advent
Return to the Advent calendar. Surprising others this Christmas… “A Child, a Child, shivers in the cold”(from the Christmas carol “Do You Hear What I…
Five Million and Counting
Shame and sorrow—those were the two words Sister Anne Curtis uses to describe how she felt after meeting face-to-face with Iraqi refugees. “The feelings were…
Missing the Sound of Bombs
“Yalla shebab!” cheered the collection of 14 or so boys as I and a fellow American student danced around the room. Traditional Arabic and Near…