Welcoming Muslims Everyone knows that immigration is a divisive topic today. In America, Europe and beyond massive numbers of people are on the move…

“Choose whatever you like!” We were sitting in the Bustard’s living room looking through a stack of original prints and the artist was making…

Camelback couch needs a new look From the moment it was hauled through the front door, I hated that pine-green naugahyde couch. It stank…

A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie, Fireside Edition, 1949. (devotional) Teach us to pray. If this has ever been a desire of…

In 1947, the great English poet W. H. Auden wrote a letter to his friend Ursula Niebuhr in which he confessed: “I don’t think…

What does God want with so many stars and black holes in infinite space? What is God’s plan on rainy nights when the wind…

There is a phenomenon slowly spreading over the social landscape that is worth noting. I suspect it’s been around since the moment our first…

Please Note: all books can be ordered through www.heartsandmindsbooks.com Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Non-fiction) Author: Atul Gawande Metropolitan Books,…

An issue of Food and Wine included a recipe for Thai fish sauce. I read it because I like Thai food, at least the…

“Cain went away,” we are told in the opening pages of scripture, fracturing the human race into “us” and “strangers” (Genesis 4:16). The division…