by Trevor Barton | Feb 28, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Have you heard of sand mandalas? They are created by Buddhist monks. It takes years of study for a monk to learn all that needs to be known about creating sand mandalas. Groups of monks work together to create them. A group chooses a design and sketches it out with...
by Chie Seshimo Lee | Feb 28, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I am an international student from Japan and Korea, and as most East Asian people often do, I needed soy sauce. As I was debating which soy sauce to get, I heard a male voice suddenly say, “Can I ask you an interesting question?” I looked towards the person who was...
by Starlette Thomas | Feb 27, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
A growing number of clergy are leaving Christian ministry, taking cover at jobs better suited for their mental health and spiritual well-being. No longer in the pulpit, what message are they sending? Last year, Barna reported that 42% of pastors have considered...
by David Wilkerson | Feb 27, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Public education has long been a petri dish through which many of society’s challenges, quirks, triumphs and conflicts have passed. Emerging, in fits and starts from the pandemic, U.S. children are confronting many of the same unique adjustments that their...
by Linda Cross | Feb 24, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
She is an immigrant. But aside from her struggle to speak English, she is like most of her neighbors in an upscale neighborhood in a sunny U.S. city. She is a member of an extended family of well-educated professionals who attend Mass regularly and take part in their...
by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 24, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Douglas Abrams writes in The Book of Hope, a book he co-authored with Jane Goodall: “Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake that evolution made.” While that is a rather despairing view, in the end, this book is a book of hope, though not without it...
