The Atlantic

The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

THE summer days climbed slowly over the Great Smoky Mountains. Long the morning lingered among the crags, and chasms, and the dwindling shadows. The vertical noontide poised motionless on the great ...
The Jewish Exponent

The Great Prophet’s Final Warning

Anyone hoping for a quick turn from the somber Days of Awe — with their self-analysis, self-criticism, self-denial and self-correction — to the joys of the fall harvest festival of Sukkot comes up ...
National Catholic Register

Learn From Samuel, Listen, and You Will See What God Can Do

Sunday, Jan. 14, is the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 The first reading speaks to us of ...
Crux

Francis is a great prophet, but he also needs to be pope

A Byzantine icon of Sts. Peter and Paul. (Credit: Wikipedia commons.) Listen It has been suggested that no previous pope has taken the name “Francis” because St. Francis was too holy and the popes ...
The Atlantic

The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains

IT was not so dreary in the dark depths of the cavern as in the still white world without; and the constable of the district, one Ephraim Todd, found the flare of the open furnace and the farreaching ...