Susan Beckett

The story is told of a former chaplain at Harvard who had students drop by his office every so often for casual chats. Often the conversation would turn to God and before long, the student would come clean with the real reason for the visit.

Recently, I was thinking about the big universal organization we are all members of, like it or not. It's the "WIC" — better known...

One day I happened to be looking up the word “mediocre” and just for fun extended my search to word origins. To my surprise,...