I deemed my life deprived Having to ride the city bus To college each day, class of 1970, Forty-minute trip one way Twice the time it wo...

Friends  and faithful readers, I am taking a few weeks off to reorganize my writing perhaps going to a monthly post. I have published my blo...

Conner Prairie is a living history museum located five minutes from my house. The popular vacation spot is a village where costumed interpre...

Mike Reed wrote the article for this week. Read Matthew 2:16-18 I like Christmas music, carols as well as "sounds of the season...

Many characters are involved in the Christmas narrative - even some inanimate objects. Here are a few I've identified:     Mary, Josep...

(I wrote the following article which  appeared in the Indianapolis Star  on Sunday, December 23, 2012, nine days after the shootings in an e...

The entrance to the limestone Benedictine Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana, where I studied to become a spiritual director, has two words e...