For almost every year of my life, I’ve spent July 4 at what my father calls our ancestral home: a few acres of old farmland bordering a small lake in Wisconsin. In one of our community traditions, ...

“In those days nobody knew that he was a boy who belonged to a story. In those days he did not know it himself.” So reflects Wendell Berry in his new novel, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story .

We all use the word forgiveness. Yet, what if I told you that a research study found that a majority of people who were asked what forgiveness is actually misunderstood it? When Plato began his ...

Over the past two days, several Western nations announced they are recognizing an independent Palestinian state, just a few weeks before the second anniversary of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.