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Meeting Holden
Mike Ralph reflects on his introduction 15 years ago in a high school English class he dreaded to JD Salinger’s beloved character Holden Caulfield.
Listening without multi-tasking party
It’s amazing the places music returns you to…when you actually sit and absorb it.
After the parades and picnics
Everybody loves a long weekend. But this year’s Memorial Day ought to be a
lot more meaningful to all of us.
The Glue of Society
Mothers are the backbone of our society and the glue that holds a family together-their work is vital but often unseen.
Brennan Manning’s gift
Brennan Manning’s latest is a gift that resembles in appearance only books Christian bookstores sell to mark life’s milestones.
Long live gravity
When I heard the familiar lines of poetry recited in the opening moments of a play celebrating the farmer, author, poet and activist Wendell Berry on Thursday, I felt a chill come over me like I have seldom experienced watching a stage production.
Singing along
By Matthew Ralph They sing so you don’t have to. That was the sarcastic response a friend of mine in college would belt out whenever he’d catch me singing along a little too loud or enthusiastically to the stereo. He had a point, but that didn’t stop me then and doesn’t stop me now […]