If you think Halloween is just a bag of treats (and tricks, depending on who you hit up), you may want to think again. The real treat lies in the day's rich spiritual symbolism. The ...

We each have a breaking point. I reached mine one recent Sunday morning when, just before noon, I realized that I'd been awake for four hours and doing homework for four hours. I was reading ...

 Eucharist, a word Catholics, Orthodox, and Episcopalians/ Anglicans often use for communion and for the Mass, sounds pretty technical to many people these days. Yet in its origins in ...

Talked to any dead friends or relatives lately? John Edward says he does it all the time. You've probably heard of Edward, who hosts the syndicated Crossing Over. A self-described "medium," he stands in a gallery of ...

No one comes running to meet me when I get home from work. The house is disappointingly dark and silent, the loves of my life hours into sleep. Since there's no one around to talk ...

When I first looked into her eyes, I fell harder for her than for anyone I had previously met. She had the most beautiful brown eyes, perfectly complementing her gorgeous smile and adorable features. ...

Any cop will tell you it's the guilty who run at the scene of a crime. Believe that and you'll find Vice President Dick Cheney's disappearances during recent terrorist alerts puzzling. During ...

My friend Dave Connors was 25 when he died of complications from heart surgery. For as long as I knew Dave, he was hampered by physical ailments, but I ...

I cried in the frozen foods aisle last night. I lived with my parents in Cincinnati for two years while I finished my master's degree and could not wait to leave. This is not to say ...

What do a vintage Warner Brothers cartoon, a classic war movie, and a caution about how we see ourselves have to do with one another? They are my way of trying to untangle the flag-waving ...