“Have you ever felt birth pangs?” Babboo asked. “Bauhat hi fuzool sawal kiya hai aap ne!” “By birth I do not only mean the birth of a child. It could be birth of an idea, birth of a sher (verse), or ...

On August 6, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President George W. Bush pieced together (with France’s blessing) a toothless UN Security Council resolution on Lebanon. The resolution does not ...

It implies that something is coming. Birth pangs — they start small, and they get farther and farther apart — sorry — far apart and they closer and closer together and they get stronger and stronger.

In the absence of a real, live spiritual director, I often turn to the Desert Fathers for wisdom about living a holy life on earth. My farm is no desert, but enough happens here for me to understand ...

In her new book, minister and mother Sarah Jobe says God is present precisely in the “grossest” moments of pregnancy. Last week I went to Johnsen & Taylor Inspirational Books and Gifts to listen to ...