As I return from a summer hiatus to write for The Good Word it occurs to me that one of the questions that nbsp we should consider this year is ldquo what is the Bible rdquo Most of us think we know what we are talking about but it can be amazing as to how different our presuppositions actually

This week s cover story from Fr Leo Donovan reviews the Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art Here we offer a slideshow of images from the exhibit The debate on the search for the historical Jesus continues this week as two scholars respond to Luke Timothy Johnson s article The Jesus Cont

Recently a very short interview in the New York Times caught my attention The person being interviewed was a small businessman named Bob Moore the founder of Bob rsquo s Red Mill Natural Foods Now Bob rsquo s Red Mill makes a product I buy regularly For at least a year now in an effort to impr

Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta nbsp Her ministry to the poor was well known during her life nbsp Her ministry to the doubtful the confused the seeker the one in darkness the one who feels distant from God began after her death with the publicat

You might have heard of late about Eminem s new song Love the Way You Lie nbsp Top of the charts for the last five weeks the song presents rap star nbsp Eminem as a guy who cannot seem to break the cycle of violence with the woman he loves -- not unfamiliar territory for the singer who spent

What America isn t edgy enough nbsp nbsp Sufficiently far out on nbsp the margins nbsp Pushing the boundaries nbsp Fringe-y enough nbsp Check it out we nbsp sent Jake Martin SJ one of our Culture writers to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for this report on the increasingly popular comed