Have you started your Christmas shopping? Find unique Christmas gifts for everyone on your list with beautiful gifts they’ve never seen.Creative Christmas gift ideas for the whole family Shopping for mom? Find Christmas gifts for mom to give her moments of peace,...
More than a century has passed since Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) wrote these poems, yet they continue to draw readers as if they had first appeared only recently. This has much to do with their lyric beauty and with the...
Imagine entering a room and finding a beautifully wrapped present on a table. Attached to the present is a label that reads: “This present is for you but don’t open it now . . . wait.” An instruction like this...
Imagine a snowy evening in one of the old small towns of Austria, eleven miles north of Salzburg—in a little village called Oberndorf. The year is 1818. A schoolmaster and a priest are quickly rehearsing for Midnight Mass. Father Joseph...
When I was a pastor at a Quaker meeting in Muncie, Indiana, I met every Thursday with the preschoolers attending our school. One Thursday before Thanksgiving, I asked them if they knew what holiday was coming up. I thought they...
Celebrate All Saints’ Day by listening to selections from Paraclete Press poets Bonnie Thurston, Susan Miller, Kathleen O’Toole, and Scott Cairns, inspired by the lives of holy men and women through the ages, read by members of Elements Theatre Company....
From her earliest years, Corrie ten Boom cared for the elderly, and when she grew old, she allowed others to care for her. It’s just what Christians did. It’s what they must continue to do in our youth-obsessed, utilitarian culture...
“If they, why not I?—If these men and women could become saints, why cannot I with the help of him who is all-powerful?” —St. Augustine Holiness for all. Saints intrigue us. We recognize something special about them that seems to...
Go out to the whole world; proclaim the gospel to all creation.—Mark 16:15 No believer in Christ . . . can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples. —Pope John Paul II, The Mission of the Redeemer,...
