“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,” Wordsworth once wrote. “But to be young was very heaven.” As an undergraduate at Smith, it was like that every day—the kind of bountiful spirit that comes when ...

Look to the pulpit for guidance in these 12 sermons, which range from the Church’s first centuries to the new millennium. Each of these classic homilies conveys the truth with boldness and compassion ...