by Bob | Alaskans celebrate this sunshine tsunami with an enthusiasm that matches how the rest of the country dives into the winter holiday season. (Video: Downtown Summer Solstice Festival by Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Ltd. Summer solstice floods Alaska with daylight. But while the longest day of the year may be June 21st, that’s just a technicality. It basically never gets […]

by ECWA Editorial Board | Toward the late 1970s, very different cultures and nations around the world took a turn to religious fundamentalism, which has occasionally been attributed to “Spirit”. Most people then are believed to be compassionate towards each other or groups of people.  (video: The Compassionate Father – Open Bible Stories (#23) by DistantShoresMedia. Image: Compassion in action: an […]

by James Kalb | The looseness of traditional connections today makes this kind of pride seem less appropriate,

by Rev. Sunday Bwanhot | Do not multi-task your devotion to God with devotion to making money. God is a jealous God and will not share you with another god. Since the beginning of time women, especially mothers, have mastered the art of  multi-tasking. We salute them. The emergence of smart phones, computers and other devices have created a generation of […]

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While the people are the heart and soul of camp, the setting is just about perfect. With Boys and Girls Camp

by Msgr. Hans Feichtinger | The Roman Curia was changed substantially when Paul VI elevated the Secretariat of State

Japanese pop culture is well-known worldwide and extremely popular among the J-Pop fans. AKB is an abbreviation for the mecca of Japanese

When one veers across that vast sea of culture, from the Mesopotamians to the present, one will notice something that strikes modern secular man in the face: all cultures rise and fall with their religious cult and reflect their religious cult.  (image: The Parthenon in Athens / Wikimedia) Man is not a body of mass in motion with the aim […]

Originally published: 2015 Author: Chigozie Obioma Genre: Domestic Fiction Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Awards: NAACP Image