What was St Paul referring to in that much discussed and oblique passage of his second Letter to the Corinthians (12:7-9)? At last we kn...

That's a theological phrase. It refers to the resistance many people have to the idea that God, the creator of the universe, would en...

John Cassian was a 4th/5th century monk who brought the Eastern monastic tradition to the West. One of the famous lines from his Conference...

Near the Piazza Navona and the Pantheon in Rome there is a restaurant --part of an international chain-- called L'eau vive , Living Wa...

This would make an excellent bumper sticker: Patriarchy: Mother Nature's Way It's a true fact . Really it is. __ Respondi...

Not your mother's nuns. My favorite line: "You're just another white man not aware of your privilege," she told ...

rightward. (Though some might call it "free fall".) Apparently brilliant actor, social critic and cougar-dumper Ashton Kutcher...

Comedian Jackie Gleason, Exorcist actor Jason Miller and Lost Boys , etc. actor Jason Patric: what do they have in common? ...

Just finished watching a late 90s Brit high-class soap, The Grand . Centered on a hotel in Manchester in the years after WWI. A bit of Upst...

Although every group's got their own version of this.