I see today is the feast of Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary to Japan. While fervently hostile to nonChristian religions, with some blood, if indirectly, on his hands in that regard, I believe he is also the first moderately accurate reporter of...

Sounds like my crowd... What is confusing is why anyone would want a different gang?

Today as any fan can tell you is the birthday of Rex Stout, and therefore of Nero Wolfe. I got through the tail end of my undergraduate experience in my late thirties, and the beginning of my seminary days thanks in good part to Mr Stout's tales of...

Shirley Chisholm would have been eighty-five today. I think she would have loved last year's election, particularly the primary, having lots of problems picking her candidate...

ARJUNA’S DILEMMA A Reflection on Killing, the Spiritual Life and the Quest for Meaning 29 November 2009 James Ishmael Ford First Unitarian Church Providence, Rhode Island Text Kishna, the great Lord of Yoga, revealed to Arjuna his...