The United States has been a major exporter of popular culture for decades We see ourselves as well as an exporter of democracy And the recent hopes expressed by young people of many nations shows that democracy or at least self-government in some form is an aspirational or inspirational export

Cambridge MA I am grateful to John Coleman for his recent ldquo A Code of Conduct for Conversion rdquo in which he calls to the attention of In All Things readers the recent ecumenical document ldquo Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World rdquo His excellent piece gives the history of

Over at The Huffington Post I ve written an essay about an experience in an anatomy lab a few weeks ago and how seeing so much death gave me pause to think about life This was by far my most vivid experience with death and the fragile human body Never before had I been so close to a dead body un

Today is the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, one of the most misunderstood of all saints. 

As the drought in East Africa deepens men women and children die from lack of water and food nbsp In Dadaab on the Somali border hundreds of thousands are massing severely testing the resources of international aid agencies nbsp If you want to help CRS is a good place to start nbsp Their

When the new John Jay report came out in May--lauded in some quarters and lambasted in others--I remember thinking I wonder what Mary Gail Frawley-O Dea thinks about it nbsp Frawley-O Dea a psychologist and author nbsp is nbsp one of the country s leading experts on child abuse and was the o