The holiday special was the product of a Jewish producer from San Francisco and a Mexican-American Catholic whose mother brought him across the border in the 1920s.

The relationship with Christ that we cultivate through prayer is grounded in his complete understanding of who we are, down to speaking our very name.

As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.

In the United States we need in humility to allow ourselves to be judged by the truth.

In our lives, ’tis a gift to be humble, but not a gift that many of us have.