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End Shusaku is a study in contrasts: one of the most influential and popular writers in postwar Japan, but an author whose major works have focused upon Christian themes foreign to most of his readers; an internationally recognized novelist whose country...

H.G. Wells ideas of marriage become evident if his early 20th century novels on marriage are analyzed keeping in mind their chronological sequence. 'Marriage' of 1912 raises questions which are tackled in 'The Passionate Friends' of 1913. The 1914 'The Wife of Sir Isaac...

Shusaku Endo's 'Silence' stressed the loneliness of being a Christian in Japan and emphasized how God suffers with his people. It is through His silence that self-emptying and subsequent salvation enfolds. A tree which flourishes in one kind of soil may wither if...

It was 1967 and the Indian meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, dressed in white with long flowing black hair and a gray beard, beamed as he stood surrounded by four smiling young Beatles at the peak of their popularity.George Harrison, clutching a sitar, John Lennon,...

Media And War: Ever since the Sept. 10 testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, we've heard less and less from the mainstream media about the war in Iraq. The old adage "no news is good news" has never been truer.That the media are no longer much...