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December 2013

December 16, 2013

Compassion in the Face of Force

For Simone Weil, justice is primarily an act of paying attention, which protects the...

December 11, 2013

Blessed Are the Homesick: Hospitality for Mobile Millennials

The independent rootlessness of emerging adults presents potent opportunities for the practice of hospitality. Shana...

October 2013

October 11, 2013

You Can’t Choose Your Friends

Axiomatic in our times is the foundational nature of choice. Our politics, economics, and...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Friendship and Vocation

A few years ago, Gallup asked employees in 152 organizations in 26 countries whether they...

June 2013

June 12, 2013

What We Can Learn from Young Atheists

Recently The Atlantic posted an article entitled, “Listening to Young Atheists, Lessons for a Stronger...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

Friendship, Gender, and Literature

“What we need is… better art and better stories—better fictional worlds, by which I mean...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

The Economic and Political Roots of Our Friendship Crisis

Yesterday Jordan Monge asked the question “why don’t we talk about friendship more?” The post...

April 18, 2013

Why Don’t We Talk About Friendship More?

This weekend, I was blessed to have the opportunity to hear Wesley Hill, the author of Washed...

April 16, 2013

The Decline of Dawkins and the Dawn of Deliberative Doubt

In March 2012, a crowd of atheists flocked to the National Mall in Washington, DC...

March 2013

March 12, 2013

Art and Friendship

When one thinks of art and its relation to ethics, one of the first things...