Hyde Park's Corner

Christ Church, East Greenwich, RI. First worship service: February 11th, 1990. It's been 20 years, and I am remembering the early years....

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is telling Congress that the administration believes the final cost of the government's...

If the world were run by economists, deficit reduction would be a very complicated balancing act. For politicians one question may well domi...

The poor will always be with us. That's what one of the most influential religious figures in history said two millenia ago--although to...

I understand the type of identity politics involved. I do. But it's just so dysfunctional, so sad and unsettling. That one vocal, politi...

Resentfulness always takes us to the same sad end: lost to love and joy, lost to ourselves and others. And this is especially true when born...

Healing, restoration, peace. Caring, understanding, kindness. Forgiveness and Love. Jesus and God's Spirit.

Mine has been a thoroughly American life and experience--broadly, deeply American. I am 63 years old, and I was born to a multigenerational ...

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever... [A]s for me, the nearness of God is my g...

Many of us have lived a lot of life, some more than others. But all have managed to negotiate some of life's passages, and the challenge...

Two millennia ago, I'm told, an occupied, dispirited Israel looked for a Davidic, conquering Messiah and deliverer from the Romans, a re...

Have you ever felt led to a transcendent sense of self, your relationships and circumstances in life? Ever felt moved in different, unknow...

Those who understand the invitations accepted and the paths prayerfully explored in my spiritual walk, will not be surprised that the experi...

We thought we were the greatest generation, Brokaw's book notwithstanding. We were the generation of promise and destiny. We were the g...

TAKOMA PARK, Md. - As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost lear...

Most people haven't really been watching or listening, have they? And why should they? The people they've been trafficking with prob...

If for so many good reasons, I try to extend respect to others, I also want to receive respect in return. But that is not the way of the wor...

Deny it with rationalizations, or ignore it if you must. But there is a social responsibility that accrues, a moral obligation that must be ...

Students come to universities with a remarkably materialistic view of what a college education can provide. It was not always thus. In the 1...