Pablo Picasso once famously said that art is a lie that tells a truth He rsquo s right There is something artificial about a work of art No matter how realistic the novel or painting might be we none-the-less recognize the presence of an artist the artificer in the work of art And that rsquo

St Ignatius of Loyola suggested that we read scripture by picturing ourselves in its scenes nbsp It rsquo s a fruitful insight because God rsquo s word aims to accomplish more than just communicating information nbsp It seeks to transform us nbsp But who can picture him or herself praying wi

On my eleventh birthday I was finally old enough to join the Boy Scouts Back then Troop 153 was led by Roy Barber a local farmer a Kansas Andy Griffith To my mind he was everything a Scout Master should be My parochial school had no male teachers and I had never bonded with a coach They were

Here are the lyrics to Hank Thompson rsquo s Wild Side of Life In 1952 it was 1 for 15 weeks on Billboard rsquo s Country Charts You wouldn rsquo t read my letter if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone But there rsquo s something I rsquo m wanting to tell you So I wrote it in t

To take in the tumult provoked by the death of Arthur Prince of Wales the first born son of King Henry VII and of his wife Elizabeth of York early in 15th century Tudor England combine the affection currently felt for Prince William with the fear for the future engendered by the death of John K

In 1967 Robert Kennedy went on a fact-finding tour of the Mississippi Delta An eyewitness recalled that he and his party went into one of the worst places I rsquo ve ever seen A dark windowless shack smelling of mildew sickness and urine There was no ceiling hardly the floor had holes in it

Marilynne Robinson rsquo s new collection of essays is entitled When I Was a Child I Read Books Here rsquo s the opening of the title essay When I was a child I read books My reading was indiscriminate I preferred books that were old and thick and hard I made vocabulary lists Surprising as it

American school children are taught to revere the sacrifice made by soldiers in the Continental Army during the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge Most don rsquo t realize that the following winter outside Morristown New Jersey was even worse Here rsquo s a soldier rsquo s description from Th

In April of 1947 the then Princess Elizabeth made a radio broadcast on the occasion of her twenty-first birthday She was abroad at the time visiting South Africa with her parents and sister Her birthday address ended with this pledge spoken in an incredibly young voice a tremulous sound stil

Twin sons were born prematurely to Buzz and Debra in August of 1983 Here rsquo s how the author of Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger records first sight of his son Zach Doctors and nurses surrounded him in a tight circle He was a bloody quiver in their hands born thirteen and half weeks too so