One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.
David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accord...
It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've ever had, the dregs of every grievance, and you set the cup in f...
Art
Very frank about his many seductions. But also he writes a great deal on the rise of the Judenfressers—that means Jew Eaters, because the term anti-Semitism was not yet coined when he was a boy. Schni...
Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.
So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or cens...
It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
How should I worship your God, no matter how powerful, when I know what he will allow to befall us? Who would follow such a cruel god? And how should I lay aside the spirits by whose aid I have roiled...
He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry, tunockuquas for frog. So many things grew and lived here that were s...
Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of any relevance to them. We
And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is r...
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a...
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justi...
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
When she thought of the letter beit, it was not of the thickness of lines or the exactitude of spaces. It was of mysteries: the number two, the dual; the house, the house of God on earth. 'They will b...
The women have been told it’s written in the Koran that they must do these things, she said. She could tell them it wasn’t but, as an outsider and a woman, her word meant little against the word of th...
Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women’s hands benefits families much more than money flowing to men.
I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.