As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents’ bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by...

A wise man once said that the best definition of insanity was performing the same action over and over again, expecting different results.”Father Peter stopped smiling. “The same could be said of you. What makes...

And that’s what we’ll do every day. If you or your friends spray-paint obscenities on our walls, we’ll scrub them off, and the people will come. if you break our windows, we’ll fix them, and...