To set the world on fire is not to destroy it. It’s to light it up with the Truth.

When I think of Job, I think of others across history who have walked through devastation and somehow carried on.

You feel attacked. Even by your allies at times. You feel like you’re standing alone.

If a person cannot walk away without being crushed by debt, violence, or threats, they are not free.

It is nonsense to claim that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery.

My great-grandparents, grandparents, and relatives lived under that shadow, and their stories connect me directly to those dark years.

If only our leaders would see language not as a weapon to divide but as a thread to weave us back together.

Ethnolinguistic tribes throughout the Philippine archipelago are increasingly interested in delving into their unique pre-colonial roots that made them unique to the Tagalogs—whose language and culture was forced on them.

Stability collapsed under the weight of daily erasure, in a uniform that boxed you, in pronouns that froze your breath.

The Vatican got it wrong during World War II. Are we mainline Protestants repeating history with our lackluster messaging about Gaza and Trumpism?

My father’s first cousin, Elizabeth Farinas Callejo Laici of Porto Recanati, Italy, has passed away.

A poem.

It was my favorite of Herman Melville's novellas. The gayness in it was unsaid subtext. A French stage production brings the secret out into the open.

“This is just cruel,” said David Fields, a longtime HIV/AIDS housing advocate and case worker in Wisconsin and now doing similar work in Chicago.

Morning observation at the Green Bay Road Jewel in Wilmette, Illinois.

It’s the highest-rated show on late-night television. Colbert has been voice for anti-Trumpism.

May his theology of exclusion die with him.

Public media is necessary in a democracy, especially in a capitalist society that values commercially-driven messaging.

This is the branch of the Democratic Party that will sabotage the people’s choice to keep themselves in control.