I lived in Indonesia during the summer of 2010. When Indonesians meet someone new, they ask two questions: What is your name? and What is your religion? I was startled one day when a wizened Indonesia...Read More
I am a great mom. My life as a mother is rewarding, educational, and at times, messy. I realized as my daughter, Katy, matured, the more mistakes I made, the more I learned, and the more I realized th...Read More
I hope this inter-Abrahamic refection serves to complicate our stance on some very touchy topics... to humanize them just a bit... and to realize that at the base of the most difficult conflicts are r...Read More
I am working in downtown Boston again. My workplace is great and I really love that I walk through the oldest park in America every morning. What I don’t love seeing are the homeless men and wom...Read More
These past two months living in Jerusalem have been an experience of witnessing the struggle—in this city and in my own heart—between forces that seek to dismember us into discrete parts, and forc...Read More
The Occupy Movement has identified itself using the term 99%. On the face, this seems to present a permanent dichotomy between the 1% of richest people, and the 99% of the rest of us. Of course,...Read More
Atheist lauders and pursuers of truth, integrity, and beauty can be none too careful. They might provoke or experience longings for the fountain of all Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. ...Read More
In The Gospel of Steve Jobs[1], Andy Crouch discusses Jobs’s influence on contemporary culture as the shepherding of a flock of secular sheep. Crouch wrote the article in January of 2011 when Jobs w...Read More
If on Rosh HaShanah we gain a picture of what can happen when we submit blindly to authority, Yom Kippur is our opportunity to choose another path....Read More
I was just looking at this website of people who are the 99% of the American people, the ones hurting because of the wanton ways of the 1%. I am part of that 99%. I could make a list of my grievances,...Read More