Growing up, my brothers and sisters and I were fortunate to be able to spend a lot of the summer at the family cottage in Scarborough, Maine. As school would end, my parents would load up the...

What am I going to do today? Tomorrow? For the rest of my life? It is highly likely that we have considered these questions at particular moments and revisited them throughout our lives, responding...

Sister Helen Prejean, the well-known advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, was not always doing this work. It came out of her “waking up,” as she put it, to capital punishment’s injustice...

The Latin motto from which the compelling sci-fi drama “Ad Astra” (Fox) takes its title assures us that, by persevering through difficulties, we can aspire to reach the stars. So it’s no surprise...

The ads were irresistible: The Brazilian government was selling large tracts of property along a new highway in the heartland of Brazil, offering bargain prices to small-scale farmers willing to work...