Harry Potter may be the perfect series to speak to this moment in time. But we need to do more than use it as a way to identify like-minded readers. We need to use the texts to create like-hearted brothers and sisters.

I did not know it was Joy

One of attractions to a show like “American Gods” is that it purposefully toys with that concept of belief.

The boy named Wolf bursts from the kiva / into a blaze of sun; men’s ankle shells rattle.

Wonder Woman finds hope and beauty in humanity despite the darkness that looms beneath.

At first encounter, Harmonia Rosales’s “The Creation of God” is striking. It is beautiful and familiar. Like Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” Rosales’s painting portrays the creation of humankind. However, the skin tones, gender and story being depicted by the artist are strikingly different.