Take the chance to see the faces and hear the voices of children guided by grace. Strong faith keeps each child hopeful and generosity makes each day full. The By Grace Disabled and Orphans Center in Nairobi, Kenya is home to a growing 130 children and an additional 100 students who have been affected by impoverished living conditions in Africa.

In the days following Jan. 1, the buzz word is New Year’s resolutions. Did you make them? Have you already broken them? Both questions commonly crop up in conversation after the start of a New Year.

Here are some resolutions Salve students and staff have made for

Ben Banning is the youngest and newest member of Abbey Rhode at age 39. He grew up liking the Beatles, but not to the extent of Flanders, Davis and Sullivan. At the age of 15, he began playing the drums, and has since been in such bands as Powerhouse and Third Generation Roach Bomb.

In his new book, Poeticized Culture: The Role of Irony in Rawls’s Liberalism, James Hersh, director of Via and professor of philosophy at Salve Regina University, raises the question of whether liberal democracy allows citizens to hold literal or absolute religious beliefs.

It was February, 1990. The Massachusetts air was cold and signaled winter. It began as what seemed like a normal Sunday evening for Rhona Held.

She was in the kitchen preparing dinner for her husband and two kids when she was suddenly interrupted. It was a phone call.