“The Church of the Long Run” has become an important practice for Christians across denominations.

For 50 years, Nicholas Black Elk led others to Christ, often melding his Lakota culture into his Christian life.

The saints are passionate; the lukewarm are professional.

On the Feast of All Souls, it is to the Day of the Dead altars that the departed ones return, caught almost as if by lure, by the florid colors, the smells and the flavors, of foods they cherished on earth.

Today in honoring the saints, we recognize that they have built the church.