I live on a red stripe dividing poverty and fame in Nashville, Tennessee.My bedroom window frames an intricately twisted metal mass resembling a power ...

America has an obsession with Walmart. At Walmart, your dollar has 10-15% more value than at the local neighborhood discount chains and corporate supermarkets. Walmart has this ...

I'm still surprised by the cell phone invasion into United States culture—the same way I am surprised by pickled pork rinds or couples making out in public ...

What I call the "Matrix phenomenon" is something I wanted to believe in and tried to understand.For a split second, this phenomenon allowed me to believe in ...

It took me by surprise when my two very successful cousins, who both recently graduated from law school, said to me, "You're going to have to ...

I know that my mother suffered terribly from postpartum depression after giving birth to my brother Franz and me, yet she and my father weren't finished. One day, Franz and I were being good and ...

My Iraqi friend, Ali, says that before the first Gulf War, Iraq didn't have any homeless people. The rich took care of the poor and the sick. It was a disgrace not to....

No one's in the kitchen with Martha"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things," said Jesus (Luke 10:38-42) after a productive Martha rebuked her lazy ...

Luke has appointed himself as my evening ride lookout. In the mornings, I ride the bus to work at the Campus for Human Development, but Curt, one of my six roommates, works three blocks away ...

There is a God on the streets. And a faith more genuine than the one we perceive the crazy street evangelists to be talking about.The spirituality of the homelessThe ...