lsquo Twas back in 1845 when you went across the wide AtlanticTo see for yourself what oppression in another place was likeYou were a freed Black man who put foot in a country not your ownBut one for which you quickly came to have the greatest empathy for despite your Anglophile sympathies You had

This Washington winter has not brought us much snow There have been repeated waves of Arctic cold for several days at a time punctuated by some strikingly mild days In one break 10 days ago the mercury climbed to 67 degrees and then plummeted again into the teens and 20s Most of our precipitatio

St. Gregory came from a line of scholars and churchmen.

Forgive me, Father, for I have said winter’s four-letter word. I have said it many, many times, day in and day out—and I cannot stop. All through this season, and everywhere I go, there are piles of it...

It wasn rsquo t until I actually stood upon that porch of Mount Vernon mdash or the ldquo piazza rdquo as it is called mdash that I finally came to appreciate and understand the man who was ldquo first in war first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen rdquo It never would have

Nadia Bulkin 27 the daughter nbsp of a Muslim father and a Christian mother spends ldquo zero time rdquo thinking about God And she finds that among her friends mdash both guys and gals mdash many are just as spiritually disconnected Surveys have long shown women lead more active lives of f