A woman emailed me with questions about a recent homily. Inquisitive and reflective, she wrote: Every single paragraph of today’s piece hit the right note for me, but these two sentences hurt: “What ...

“I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river/ Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable,” — from T.S. Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages.” How to appease the fickle River Gods? Last ...

Patriot's Day is celebrated on the third Monday in April by Maine, Massachusetts and a few other states, commemorating the first battles of the American Revolution, a holiday that dates back more than ...