Dr. Krcmery’s Christian faith helped him not only endure the communist regime, but also find meaning in thirteen years of torture and imprisonment.
A few years ago, suffering and death took a sledgehammer to my neat little map of reality.
Ever since I was a little girl, photographs have captured my imagination by freezing a single moment and place in time. I love how they … Read More ›
Ever since the dawn of history, some go-to techniques have wormed themselves into mankind’s habits, despite having no business being there. That clichéd opening for … Read More ›
“Friends are just strangers you haven’t alienated yet.” If someone said this to you, you probably wouldn’t think that he had decided to refer to … Read More ›
“Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe’s inhabitants,” declares the back cover of Philip Ziegler’s work on the … Read More ›
The death penalty is one of the most controversial issues in society. It strikes at a fundamental religious and philosophical question: Can an individual become … Read More ›
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Humanity consumes resources, but resources are finite. Therefore, we are destined to one day run out of … Read More ›
Dante’s epic The Divine Comedy depicts an archetypical journey of a human being through the torments of hell and the cleansing pains of purgatory, into … Read More ›