Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.

Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course […..], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David...

People go around mourning the death of God; it’s the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren’t people any more, they’re just ssoul-less sheep.

A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon—a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost for a dead deity—and gazed upon the sarcophagus of rare and nameless marble, where...

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.

You can’t live your life in a bubble, Charlie. And you can’t live Evan’s life for him. He won’t thank you if you try to wrap him in bubble wrap and set him on a...