Tag: ethics
The Gift of Interaction
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
Love and Weight Loss
Weight. The very word is heavy, overweighted. Weight on my plate. Weight in my gut. Weight in my heart. Weight of the world. Heavy, heavy, heavy…it’s such a bad word. It’s something none of ... Read More
Joe Paterno is Not the Victim. Joe Paterno is the Perpetrator!
As it is reported, Coach Paterno was told, by a graduate assistant under his employ, that his Assistant Coach Sandusky was forcing sodomy upon a 10 year old boy in the shower. Coach Paterno referred... Read More
Lines through the Heart of this City
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 Hidden Values of Medical Training
One of the most cited adages of my medical training has been William Osler’s famous quip: “the secret of caring for the patient is in caring for the patient.” For those not in the medical field,... Read More
Celebrated Ignorance, or When Will the Polemics Stop?
The LRA are Christians. Or so said Rush Limbaugh on his October 14th show: “Now, up until today, most Americans have never heard of the combat Lord’s Resistance Army. And here we are a... Read More
Landscapes or Sandscapes? New Atheist Grounds for Morality
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
The Value of Discomfort: Why I won’t make peace with my Parsha
I have encountered many mitigating interpretations of the most painful texts in my Torah portion (Lev. 18:22 and 20:13), some more rigorous and thoughtful than others. However, academically and religi... Read More