Nearly ten years after the terrorist strikes of Sept. 2001, the news of Osama bin Laden’s death re-awakened strong feelings in our nation. Grief, relief, anger, exuberance, fear, and dismay again took the stage of our public and private conversations. Ten years ago, these played themselves out on television, in living rooms, classrooms, shops, and [...]
From Cairo to Tripoli, in Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain, and Abidjan the people’s resistance to repressive regimes has taken to the streets. The strains of the great spiritual echo in my ears, `…tell ol’ Pharaoh to let my people go!’ This is a time of hope and celebration, but as in any crisis danger accompanies opportunity. [...]
It goes without saying that the world of marketing is filled with hype. The discerning comparative shopper must trudge through landscapes littered with phrases and acronyms, all designed to suggest that the products in question are using the latest and greatest technology. Positrack, Solid-State, Full HD, 4WD, AWD, DiG!C4, LiveView, Clearvue, are just a few. [...]
It was all over the news. For some it was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Most people didn’t even see it. The full lunar eclipse December 21st was special. For the first time in almost 400 years, it coincided with the winter solstice, the last of the lengthening nights and the first of the lengthening days. Other [...]
Advent platitudes about the brightening dawn of hope and new life run pretty, plentiful, and cheap. Digging deeper, we come to the root of Advent matters, but also get our hands dirty. As a child, I was deeply curious about how things worked and wildly fascinated by my cousin Mark’s mystical powers with all things [...]
Someone said that laughter is the best medicine, but I’m guessing they weren’t trying to recover from abdominal surgery. My wife’s recent surgery has offered us both a chance to consider the life ingredients needed for healing. There was a time when it was thought that what healing bodies most needed was rest. While our [...]
In a world where so many slap the label ‘sacred’ onto anything they’d like to claim as their own, or market for their own gain, or about which they prefer to shut down conversation or critical thought, sacred space can be easy to find, but hard to truly encounter. At District Conference, David Radcliff invited [...]
