Ignore Scrooge. Reject the Grinch. Believe. There really are Christmas miracles. My own personal miracle began 44 years ago Dec. 20. Drunk as a prairie skunk, I walked through the doors of St. John’s Hospital…

I’ve missed only one Christmas with some sort of family.  Even today I can remember the pangs of loneliness while trying to steel myself with a cavalier attitude. I was 20 and attending school in…

One of the great themes of the Christmas season is surprise. Every child excited for Christmas morning understands it: the sense of wonder that comes along with an unexpected gift. From a Savior born in…

2023 was the year of the economic woman. Will it last? You get to decide.  I was born in 1976. My mother was 26 years old and recently married. The Vietnam War was over. Fat…

Ukraine surprised everyone — above all, probably, Vladimir Putin — with its determined resistance to Russia’s attack in February 2022. But now the war has ground down to a lethal stalemate. Ukraine cannot win this…

My happiest Christmas memories take the form of snapshots, or the briefest of video clips, though in most cases no actual photographic documentation exists. Even when I study on them, even when I work in…

I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but there’s widespread voting fraud going on in Kansas as you read this.  I’m speaking, of course, of the online polling to pick…

A little after 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, a man stabbed three children and a woman outside a primary school in downtown Dublin. The woman and one of the children, a 5-year-old girl, were seriously…

Dan Savage, the sex columnist, has said that in order to remain in love for the long haul, we need to establish a shared myth. The myth we create allows us to create an image…

We are no strangers to human suffering — to conflict, to natural disasters, to some of the world’s largest and gravest catastrophes. We were there when fighting erupted in Khartoum, Sudan. As bombs rained down…