I really enjoy writing Christmas poems, and have composed fourteen since 1996. It's a very different form of writing for an apologist like myself, whose subject matter is almost exclusively ...

The protesters at the ICE facility outside Chicago are not an angry mob. We’re just people who believe in due process and free speech. Sandra Teresa Soledad Montes Vela, a lay executive council member ...

Cambridge, MA. I promised in my previous entry on the baby Jesus seen through Hindu eyes that I would return again this week to the theme of the newborn Christ seen and contemplated in light of ...

Click the arrow on the audio player to hear Henri Cole read this poem. You can also download the recording or subscribe to Slate's Poetry Podcast on iTunes. Their ...

When Scott Cover and his family lived in Savannah, Georgia, and their church was throwing out piles of junk during a renovation, there was one item the military officer decided did not belong in the ...