Injustice On Your Doorstep

Injustice On Your Doorstep

The annual festival of football frenzy and consumer excess is on the horizon. Parties will abound. Millions will order pizza and wings, fried chicken and beer and Chinese food. Millions of delivery drivers will zoom back and forth, hustling from their cars to...
Italian Lessons

Italian Lessons

They don’t have Diet Mountain Dew, at least in Sorrento.  That’s one of the many things I learned during a mid-December week Susan and I spent celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary.  We decided to forgo attempting a grand tour of Italy. Instead, we stayed the...
The Cooking of the Greens

The Cooking of the Greens

With Advent underway, many churches have held a celebratory service to adorn the sanctuary with festive decorations—wreaths, of course, and forests of poinsettias. Chrismon trees are popular, as worshipers happily hang Styrofoam alphas and omegas along with oversized...
With My Own Eyes

With My Own Eyes

The sessions were one thing, but the museums were another.  The American Schools for Overseas Research offers not only academic papers on the archaeology of Israel, Mesopotamia, and other ancient sites, but also applied sessions on subjects such as connections between...