Category: Social Issues
It’s hard to find 11-year anniversary cards, or, healing isn’t forgetting
Eleven years have now passed since the illusion of peace and tranquility was shattered on another clear, blue, Tuesday morning, eleven years in which we’ve stubbornly refused as a nation to learn th... Read More
September 11th, 2001. The Day My Hatred was Born.
We will read many perspectives over the next few days about how to honor the 11th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on US soil, and we would do well to read them. Some will call us to unity. O... Read More
“I Don’t See Race.”
Article first published as “I Don’t See Race” on Blogcritics. Once upon a time there was a man on a quest to solve the world’s problems. He heard that there was a person who co... Read More
DivInnovations Profile 5: Yale Divinity School
Multifaith engagement at YDS goes well beyond official commitments and guidelines, however, touching the day-to-day fabric of life at the Divinity School, where Christian students may sit side-by-side... Read More
Can Grit and Curiosity Transform Urban Education?
Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, opened his talk by discussing rats. In an audience of Harvard education students, this set the expectati... Read More
To Till and to Tend
What was humanity's original purpose in the Garden of Eden and what can we learn from this as we approach the Jewish High Holy Days?... Read More
Evil Rising From Where We Tried to Bury It
In 1945, as Allied forces were closing in on him, Adolf Hitler took his own life. His death seemed to symbolize the end of the Nazi Empire. In recent times, there appears to be a Rise of the Evil Hi... Read More
Through the Eyes of Sikh Kids: a Profound Lesson in Tolerance
Last weekend, I had the unenviable task of teaching Sikh children about the massacre in Oak Creek. The kids sat at picnic tables overlooking a lake at sunset at a summer camp in New York State. They c... Read More