I bought this T-shirt and it’s been kind of an albatross to me. I love the shirt but it’s the attention it attracts that frustrates me. It’s a red T that says “2 Weeks” on the front in bold white letters. Every time I wear it someone, or many someones, ask me, “Hey, Brian, what’s in two...

The church I grew up at had a sister parish in Saint-Louis-de-Sud, Haiti. The church sent mission trips to Haiti twice a year. We would build schools, run electricity and hold medical clinics. From a young age, I was fascinated by the stories we heard from those returning from trips to Haiti. I repeatedly...

“Kim, I think I feel a lump,” Bjoern said as he felt our Rottweiler’s neck.  It was a snowy January afternoon in Indiana, and we were cozily hunkered down in front of the fireplace.  Cuddling with Brigitte, the dog, my husband had discovered the tumor that would steal her away from us that April,...

It seems like everyone I know has been to, or is going to, hear u2 live in October.  They’re out on the west coast doing a tour, and so Christians between 20 and 40 are making the pilgrimage. Before I continue, I’ll offer the caveat that I love u2.  I just returned from running stairs and Bono...

Let’s face it; unless you’re under the age of 10, soccer just isn’t that cool. Somewhere after that glorious period of mobbing the ball with nine of your friends through fields of dandelions while shrieking screams, the sport becomes drastically less cute and increasingly more boring for parents...

Hope in the midst of chaos is a great aspiration and something we can all believe in — until we’re in the midst of chaos.   This is how I felt today as I read an article by Robin Cook, the prolific author and surgeon, on the fictionalized version of a new global pandemic that he conjectures...

Yesterday two U.S. reporters, Euna Lee and Laura Ling (former “The View” cohost Lisa Ling’s sister), were sentenced to twelve years of hard labor at a North Korean prison. The California-based reporters for Al Gore’s Current TV had been arrested back in March for allegedly (they may have...

by Sara Sterley My husband, a 6’7” former college basketball player, likes his meat. He typically indulges my tree hugger tendencies: he composts with the best of them, reuses everything, and even broke his back in our clay-filled backyard a few weeks ago to double the size of our organic garden....

artwork by artist He Qi Dear Eve, You wouldn’t know me from Adam, but my name is Kim, and I am a very distant great-granddaughter of yours. I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Ron and Debbie in 1975 A.D., and now I reside with my husband and children in one of its northern suburbs. Indianapolis,...

I figured this was along the lines of Social Justice, so it more than fits here. EVEN YOU CAN BE A HERO JUST KEEP FIGHTING Everyone needs a hero! I’m not talking about Superman, Batman, Spiderman, or any of those marvelous characters that you wish you could be. I’m talking about a average joe who’s...