In the summer of 1979, I spent a day at the ecumenical community of Taizé in France. The weather was perfect—cloudless sky, pleasantly warm—and the lawns were lush green. Scattered across them were ...

The thief on the cross next to Jesus waited in suffering for the promise of paradise. So do many of us. When readers thumb through their Bibles for examples of courage, few consider flipping to the ...

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The spot is two miles south and three-quarters of a mile west of the farmhouse, a stretch of country road that Ana has always hated because of its sugar sand, so often found south of the Arkansas ...