If one hopes to one day join the ranks of the saints in heaven, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to get to know a few more of them first. While I wasn’t raised Catholic by any means (I’m the daughter of a pastor), I have realized that the world of saints is a truly rich and…

Commentary The world-renowned Loire Valley is one of the most visited regions in all of France, and in Dreamscape Media’s excellent 2019 documentary, “Passport to the World: Chateaux” (available to watch on Epoch Cinema), those of us who haven’t been there will get to find out why. There are over 3,000 grand chateaus scattered throughout…

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain (1835-1910), the pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemons, remains a figure of controversy. Some schools, for example, have dropped his American classic “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from required reading lists for its racial language. Twain’s religious skepticism, directed in particular toward Christianity, has also made his…