Formation stories: four women on the long and sometimes winding road to becoming Catholic sisters

http://globalsistersreport.org/news/formation-stories-four-women-chart-different-paths-becoming-sisters-38226

Samaritan Center helps churches prevent child sex abuse before it starts

http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/as-congregation-based-child-protection-program-goes-national-director-sees/article_17163c4a-dc01-11e5-96a0-13e8b040150a.html

Handicapping the evangelical vote this year? It's not easy

My column in the Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thinktank/Wholl-win-support-of-evangelicals.html

After horror, in the midst of grief, a killer's mother finds Amish grace

http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/out-of-sorrow-a-message-of-hope/article_a939d29c-cd17-11e5-81ac-9b0e4369e111.html

Is schism ahead for the Anglican Communion?

In spite of its move to punish the shrinking (yet relatively wealthy) Episcopal Church for gay-ordination and marriage-advocacy, and a symbolic attempt at unity as the Canterbury gathering ended, thunderclouds are on the horizon for the Anglican Communion.

http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/does-the-anglican-communion-face-a-schism/article_7313206e-c13d-11e5-bcd8-67930f3d1af6.html#fb-root

In 2016, PA politicians, advocacy groups remain divided over refugee/immigrant issues

http://lancasteronline.com/features/faith_values/politicians-and-social-groups-eye-refugee-issues/article_c7dd1996-b63a-11e5-845f-abf2fc340cc1.html#fb-root

"Augustine": Robin Lane Fox's extraordinary biography (my review in the Philadelphia Inquirer)

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20160103__Augustine___Magisterial_biography_of_a_crucial_Christian_thinker.html