Before I leave for a retreat I thought I d post this video from the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management on the topic of joy during times of adversity nbsp The talk was nbsp at their annual meeting this June at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphi

Living in Europe during my early twenties was a pivotal experience a life-changing period developmentally of setting out to see ldquo the world rdquo for myself It was also a time of self-testing The experience continues to shape my vacation travel in that I have long tried to save enough mo

Many readers of America will have visited or at least heard about the Pantheon in Rome I knew little about it on my first visit there several years ago but was overtaken by it the moment it came into view from the street And once I stepped inside the rotunda and saw the Catholic altar amidst a

This New York cover story is worth a read if you didn t catch it earlier this month Jennifer Senior sets out to explore the various reasons why in study after study young American parents have been shown to be unhappy with their lives As a new happy parent I was puzzled by this idea but I al

If the above title sounds a little inside baseball to you a very very very brief nbsp explanation nbsp Alice von Hildebrand is a Catholic philosopher and theologian and also nbsp the widow of Dietrich nbsp von Hildebrand a prominent philosopher and moral theologian active in the anti-Nazi

News from the Telegraph Maria Jepsen 65 came under fire for her handling of the case of a pastor accused of abusing young boys and girls in the 1970s and 1980s in her northern nbsp German nbsp diocese of Hamburg She reportedly knew for several years about the case but failed to act My credibili