The pastor of a rundown urban parish wanted an old-fashioned Easter parade to liven things up. So his never-say-die events coordinator made it happen.

I‘ve always had a hard time with Easter. Maybe it’s that I don’t do well when I eat too much candy, which I inevitably do on Easter Sunday. But I find Easter a difficult day to celebrate.

Movie screens are getting bigger again. Special effects create worlds beyond our imagination. Hit movies need to be reviewed and labeled as “spectacular” and have stars of international status.

Labeled the most corrupt cop in Chicago history, a former Chicago police officer was sentenced earlier this year to life in prison.

How do you pass on a living faith to the next generation? A few years back, Robert Wuthnow, sociologist of religion, conducted research among people who considered themselves religious and asked what influences from childhood had helped their faith take root.

Talk shows have become a staple of American daytime television, for better or worse. Some try to gear themselves toward helping people help themselves.

One of the secrets of successful businesspeople is, invariably, balance between their personal and professional lives. They’ll say that their weekends are sacrosanct or maybe it’s the nine-hour day.

Most parents want their children to grow up to be good and moral people. So parents can find some consolation in today’s reading from Jeremiah, “I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts.

Many survivors of the Holocaust recount how they were brutally taken from their homes to the horrific concentration camps where so many died. For some the journey to the camp was itself a living hell.

Most of us have been there—that zombie state from working too many hours for too many days in a row. You say to yourself, “Just one more week, as soon as I finish this one project.”