She began to read aloud.
Justice
Everyone is using the phrase social justice these days. For some it means making up for past wrongs. Others suggest
History
An architect friend recently told me about 100 year old monuments his firm re-embedded into new bridgework. The monuments remember
Flaws
“I had murdered them all myself.”[1] G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown detective stories are unique in their search for human wrongdoing.
Education
Culture promotes a popular myth concerning the teenage years: 13-18 year olds listen more to their peers than their parents.
Complexity
In Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science Dr. Atul Gawande writes: “We look for medicine to be an
Tocqueville’s Discovery of America (Damrosch)
Everyone claims and quotes him, but not all understand him.
In the Neighborhood (Lovenheim)
How would you respond to a neighbor you had just met who asked if he could sleepover one night at
Living with “What Is” not “What If”
“If only I…” are the first three words of an unfinished sentence setting our sights on ourselves.
Souls in Transition (Smith)
Swiss authorities studied how religious traditions are passed from generation to generation. The results published in 2000 were staggering.