Woodlief, Tony

I’ve been working on contentment, which mostly means I’ve been praying for God to help me be content in whatever circumstances I find myself,...

“Isaac’s being a jerk,” my seven year-old, Isaiah, says about his older brother. They have been sledding over new-fallen snow. “Why do you say that?” “Because...

Every baptism in the Orthodox Church entails an exorcism, as I learned last Easter when I was baptized into the Church. It was nothing...

A reader whose younger sister recently died wrote me to ask how I endured, during the time of my daughter’s sickness and death, the...

Some of you may like my attempt, though it probably deserves more thought, to articulate why we pay little attention to big-money sports in...

I stepped out onto the wet sidewalk this morning and looked up at the sky and tried to see whether the grey clouds were...