This 1991 film about friendship, food, and small-town Alabama perfectly shows the kind of Christian love that shapes my faith, despite its complex background spanning different spiritual traditions through the generations in my family in the far-off Ilocos and Hawaii.

An unseen source of all beauty, truth, and goodness was seen by many early Christians as pointing toward God.

We cannot afford to stay this cynical. Not if we want anything worth passing on.

Learn about the indigenous Ilocano faith tradition called Anitism.

The parable of the farmer at Menard’s.

Two of my favorite paintings are by Carl Bloch and Frans Schwartz of the same subject.