A word of tree, a whisper of stone

Please meet my friends Chirp and Tweet. In Spring 2009, when we still lived in upstate, this couple of House Finches resolved to built th...

Divine Guitar? Yes indeed, and literally so! There were times in the Ancient Near East when Guitar really was a god. You can find him on th...

The other day I overheard my wife’s Skype conversation with her mother. They were paging together through our internet-based photo-album ...

Ka-Lae, also known as South Point in Hawaii, is a special place. Some people travel there to visit the green beach with sand alm...

Suppose you walk across a heath and there, on the path, you find a pocket watch. What would be your first thought? “Poor fellow!” You might...

“Would we baptise Martians?” asked Pope Francis this Tuesday in his homily, instantly grabbing the attention of the media.  "If - for...

Any time we read about Doubting Thomas, we celebrate the diversity of our faith which reaches as far as we can see - certainly as far as th...