Long before Twitter or Drudge or Huffington or Gawker, there was another one-word media monolith, bigger and more influential than any one else. Walter. Television viewers didn’t ...

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I've done a fair share of shopping in my lifetime. I've shopped for shoes, for good restaurants, and for colleges. One thing I've never done ...

Garden While supporting local farmers, eating organic, and eating lower on the food chain are all healthy and helpful, gardening is the hands-on way to connect with the beautiful biodiversity of God's good earth. It is ...

For those of us of the "spiritual but not religious" generation, it's a hymn to our ears when a visionary like Michael Franti (of Spearhead) ...

I drink my morning coffee with milk. For some reason, I can barely stand drinking it without. One rainy evening I'm at home on the ...

The uproar over Notre Dame's honoring President Obama in late May exposed the fissures within American Catholicism that will no doubt be on display following ...

“What’s up?” you ask. For one thing, the new movie, Brüno. The swishy, semi-fascist fashionista Brüno is the imaginary Austrian TV personality created by the very ...

Many of us grew up being told to turn off the lights when we leave a room or to not hold the refrigerator door open while looking for a snack. While small, these and other ...

Growing up, I was mortified by my parents' public displays of religion. I'm still convinced that from the years of 1982 to 1986 my parents ...