Interlog

the priest in "Lower Depths" ...

Friends, Before I even start this piece, let me thank everyone who replied to my post(s) earlier.  Unfortunately I can't always reply due to my work, which makes my presence here rather erratic. I'd like to offer just one more comment on "Lower Depths" by filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, which is based on Maxim Gorky's 18th century play of the same name and is "reviewed" below.

Letter from the Vatican on Buddhists and Christians Together in Solidarity

This was written by Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Just thought I would post it here.

TERRIFIC movie!

Friends,

Forgive me for yelling in the title :-) ... but I just finished watching a terrific older movie that I suspect many of you here would

On belief in "God"

Recently I had the good fortune to travel and visit with my mother.  My mother is a wonderful woman of good Methodist stock who has finally made peace, it seems, with

Just Saying Hi ...

Friends,

Dharmavidya has been kind enough – and, we trust, not foolish enough J ! – to invite me to contribute occasional pieces here.  I can’t get around to writing anything particularly thoughtful this week, but will at least use this occasion to introduce myself …

I’m a Christian (Presbyterian) minister living in the United States … married (34 years to Jan), 3 grown boys (Jacob, Ben, Noah) and now one granddaughter (Grace, born to Jacob and his wife 2 years ago).  My wife is a hospice nurse.  A practicing Christian, she’d probably convert to Roman Catholicism if