Sane people are surveying the landscape of America right now and wondering, what the heck has happened to this great country? The wicked, meanwhile, are reveling in the madness. And thus the battle ...

This Sunday’s readings take us from Old Testament prophecies of the future Messiah to the union of Jew and Gentile in God’s kingdom. They also bring us to the herald of Jesus’ earthly ministry and the ...

In my notes I still have a remark that James Cox, professor of American literature at Dartmouth, made during a lecture while I was an undergraduate at Michigan State University: “Hawthorne’s sketches ...