You can't fix the mortgage mess if you don't understand what caused it. That's not finger-pointing. That's common-sense. A Biblical parable offers insight into why bad mortgage loans now threaten ...

Last week, the Sunday Gospel began reading Matthew 13, a chapter that contains multiple parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. We began with the Parable of the Sower and Seed, discussing the fate of ...

THE dictionary defines tare as “a grass that flourishes or bountifully grows in wheat fields, and is difficult to distinguish between the two until after the harvest when the wheat and tare are sieved ...

*I was watching a documentary on Black country singer Charlie Pride in which he recounted picking cotton in Mississippi. As a youngster, he tried to outdo his father, but when they got to the scales ...

It came up in church a few weeks ago — that dreaded “wheat and tares” analogy. I’ve been hearing it a fair amount lately. “It’s the wheat and the tares,” the righteous will sigh, sadly shaking their ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

In First Things, John Burgess has a long, thoughtful, fairly comprehensive report on the rebirth of the Orthodox Church in post-Soviet Russia. Not only did I learn a lot from it, I also appreciated ...

During your life, you have resided under the Muhammad Ali of American presidents, and as luck would have it, you are now living under the second greatest president, ever. If that isn’t enough, over in ...

We must stop relaxing or abandoning our moral standards and ethical principles in order to please different sets of people who are hell-bent on having their own way, while expecting others to extend ...