GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher)

Jesus, Joseph and Mary have all been discovered in everything from grilled-cheese sandwiches to chocolate bars. Statues weep. Relics heal. T...

At first, when hound-dogging the groves and hollows of religion or spiritual life or whatever you want to call it, I think there is a peri...

Today seems to be a day of reading good articles. Under the unprepossessing title, " How an 18th Century Philosopher Helped Solve M...

What a well-written and informative piece, Hephzibah Anderson's BBC article on the "penny dreadful" of Victorian times. Str...

Chinese, American, Russian, Turkish, Israeli, Chilean ... was there ever a time and ever a country that didn't do what it could to pro...

Stealing small amounts of food to stave off hunger is not a crime , Italy's highest court of appeal has ruled. Judges overturned a...

On most days, I drive my wife to her workplace so that then I can have use of the car. The distance is perhaps three or four miles through...

Those who are free are free to accord with circumstances. Those who are not free are likewise free to accord with circumstances.

A freediver has set a new world record - plunging 122m into a blue hole in the Bahamas on one breath. New Zealander William Trubridge ...

I was afraid the conceit would overwhelm the tale and it did to some extent. Nevertheless, I watched all of " Look Who's Back, ...

The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a writer, teacher and longtime peace activist whose repeated acts of civil disobedience put him at odds ...

Marco Fu As far as I can see, here is a story about a "World Championship" that manages not to mention the sport involved w...

148 discarded diaries... Whose are they? Is there anyone without such a collection, whether there are diaries or not? What can anyone lea...

In a BBC article that differentiates "Zionism" and "anti-Semitism," the following detail was tacked onto a British Me...

"I want my loved ones and myself to be happy" There are times when it is best to keep things simple, and that's just wh...

And, in the ever-encroaching strangle hold of a real-life Brave New World: A man has been held in prison for seven months after failing ...

Puttering around with "genealogy" this morning, it occurred to me that genealogy tends to underscore the truth that the deeper you...

How does a tiny Spanish village of just 62 souls come to be excommunicated in its entirety and cursed with a spell so strong that on...

David Levenson’s photographs capture the UK at leisure: A lady sits engrossed in her puzzle magazines in a cafe, oblivious to the le...

The screw turns ... who's getting screwed these days: -- Tehran police chief Gen. Hossein Sajedinia recently announced his departm...

Humming in the morning fog.... If all things change, then all things are unreliable. It's not a threat and it's no cause for sna...

Got a request today to use a photo my mother took of author Carson McCullers. I think the idea was to stick it on a Suzanne Vega album co...

Voltaire What if there were a war and nobody came? What if there were a church and nobody came? In a local story about a Congregati...

In college, I once took a course in 19th century literature. The course included some -- or maybe just one -- of the works of Thomas Carly...

Given the scallywags who seem to turn up regularly in the organizational ranks of various charities, perhaps my visceral skepticism and su...

Caught between my mental teeth like a stringy bit of asparagus is a quote attributed to Cicero in an article about Mary Beard , a current-...

Passed along in email: Victorville, CA –  A Barstow, California woman is claiming that an accident she caused on the highway was related...

Every now and then I see a story about someone I would like to know ... not often ... and Mary Beard is one such person. A shit-kickin...

As if the thin-lipped and thin-limbed austerities of runway models were not enough to dispel a warming heart, Kazakhstan appears to have upp...

Is it just because I'm an old fart or is it actually true? People these days talk too fast. I notice it on the TV business and other...