If you look at the news, at our politics, at the general temper of everything in our national dialogue, we are a people screaming, “Pray for us.” Jesus tells us to “pray for our enemies.” However, how ...
In my last column, I asked, “Are we willing to pray for our political enemies?” This is an uncomfortable question, because we know we are not supposed to have enemies. Yet when we think of the parable ...
"I have opened my Heart as a living fountain of mercy. Let all souls draw life from it. Let them approach this sea of mercy with great trust," she wrote in her diary in 1520. "Lord Jesus Christ, have ...
For those who have often sat in a darkened theater wondering, "What is that character thinking?," Craig Lucas has written a play for you. For those who have often sat in a darkened theater wondering, ...
This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY. Follow this theme and author posted Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. One major ...
America the addicted. America the numb. America the war weary. America the lonely. All these countries compose the jagged terrain of “Prayer for My Enemy,” the ungainly but viscerally potent new Craig ...
I’ll be the first to admit my spiritual life isn’t as lively as it should be. Little things illuminate that fact — like church bells, the occasional benediction humming through my mind during traffic, ...
The folks onstage in Craig Lucas‘ “Prayer for My Enemy” are all struggling to make sense of themselves and their roles in a mystifying universe. The play touches on relationships, family, sexuality, ...
In setting the centerpiece scene of his play Prayer For My Enemy (at Playwrights Horizons) against the eighth and ninth innings of a televised baseball game, Craig Lucas has given himself a challenge: ...