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October 2014

October 31, 2014

What If Age is Nothing But a Mind-Set?

The New York Times reports on an old study about age, and whether it may...

October 29, 2014

The Problem with Positive Thinking

Here's a fascinating piece from the New York Times about the problem with positive thinking (and...

October 22, 2014

Dear Siri

In the New York Times this past weekend was the touching story of a boy with...

October 09, 2014

Elevating Dinner for One

I read Tamar Adler's lovely book An Everlasting Meal in graduate school, and I still return...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

David Brooks on Friendship (and Its Benefits)

David Brooks had a great piece at the New York Times last weekend on the social and...

September 16, 2014

Is Pop Culture Too Juvenile?

In the New York Times this past weekend, the film critic A.O. Scott wrote about the slide...

June 2014

June 06, 2014

What Gets Lost When Handwriting Declines?

Here's an interesting question: what's lost as handwriting declines in our increasingly digital age? But...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

A Wild God

Barbara Ehrenreich (an atheist and a journalist) recently published a book called Living with a Wild...

April 23, 2014

Vocations from the Vision to the Gallery

I always perk up when I see the word "vocation" in an unexpected place, and...

April 10, 2014

Reflecting on Passion – Posthumously

In the New York Times last weekend, Nicholas Kristof - looking ahead to graduation season -...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Running as Therapy

I started running about a year and a half ago, more or less seriously (with...

December 2013

December 11, 2013

Giving Witness (with the Messiah)

I (like many of you, I'm sure) love Handel's Messiah, ever since I spent years as...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Back to School – With a Computer in Your Brain

File this under the "terrifying" heading: the New York Times reports that scientists are "edging...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Can We Slow Down Time?

My husband sent me this article on the phenomenon that makes it feel as if...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

The Beauty of a Finite Existence – and Technology

There was an excellent piece in the New York Times this weekend by the novelist Jonathan Safran...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Should The Government Regulate High Heels?

Honestly, I've never been much into high heels. Given that I'm a 54-year-old male, that's...

November 2011

November 03, 2011

A Presbyterian Church Makes the New York Times and There’s No Scandal!

I was surprised and pleased to see that a Presbyterian Church made it into the...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

Who are the Unreasonable People?

A recent article in the New York Times highlighted people who are proudly unreasonable. No,...

April 2011

April 30, 2011

Reading the Times (April 30, 2011)

Ah, Hell! Columnist Ross Douthat offers a defense of the Christian notion of Hell. According...