“The Master” hit theater screens this week. It was much anticipated and feared as an expose of a particular, major religious cult (which prohibited its members from seeing it) in the

Young, stormy and driven as an adolescent, my reaction to striking out in baseball was to curse the bat for conspiring against me, and in the field, when the ball bounced between my then-scrawny

Let’s see if I’ve got this right: Based on developments of the last week, the entire planet may some day be thanking former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode for its survival.

On Gay Pride Sunday, June 13, 2010, marking the 40th anniversary of the first Gay Pride parade, I had the honor of delivering remarks to those assembled a few blocks from the Pride festival at the

“If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire, if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores, if women could be dragged to jail for

“Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” This quote from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians (4:16) in the Bible describes the