The other day I wrote about having no hope. More specifically no hope in this world, more specifically because the hopes we had have been

Want to know when you can be sure the economy is in the turlet? It’s when even Walmart’s not hiring. According to this item, the

I often vow not to hope, and always break that vow. And the next thing I’m supposed to say is that finally my hopes are

Mostly I gave up meat for Lent. Or to put it another way, I gave up meat (mostly) for Lent. And this is how Lent

Once after one of my MFA professors had said the work we were reading was neither good nor original, the student who’d produced the pages

We like lists. Here’s one. Love is a song Love is the greatest song Love is integral Love is alive Love is gospel Love is

Church folk and artists haven’t always been friends. Ha. Get it? Because it seems they’ve almost never been friends, though that’s not true, and shouldn’t

Obscured in the kerfuffle over Mr. Robertson’s coarser comments on the Fairer Sex is a simple fact that any five-year-old can tell us: Adults say

In evangellyfish circles there used to be a joke thus — Let us now turn to Malachi, the Italian prophet. The joke works if you

I don’t think next year will be so different from this year. Which after all was not so different from the one before. But I

First thing I noticed anew this year watching It’s a Wonderful Life was how happy George Bailey was to be going to jail. He celebrates it,