When clergy gather to update the state of religion amid divisions over LGBTQ+, racism and antisemitism, the entire world should turn out. But don’t look for that to happen even if the world were coming to an end. Still, a goodly turnout met four such panelists the past month and all found it […]
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RELIGION AND CHANGE
July 20, 2023GOOD PEOPLE, BAD THINGS
July 20, 2023Rabbi Harold Kushner died this month. His 1981 book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” was a #1 bestseller. He said he had been hurt by life and he wrote what he learned, hopefully to the benefit of readers. I felt the title was better than the book. I had a problem […]
A Holy Mess
April 1, 2013The Roman Catholic Church, in this post-Easter season, ledby a new and promising pope, should declare a world-wide Year of Mourning for all children abused by priests and others. During this time, it would be wise to remove all those guilty of such crimes, release their names, and place all relevant Church […]
Murdoch: Or, When They Do It to Themselves
July 13, 2011I love dead poets, and dead philosophers too. Thank goodness for liberal arts educations and their classical referents. They won’t make you rich like an MBA does, but they help to make important sense of the world. Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is among the truest of insights: people and institutions that have the […]
Sweating It Out with Spiritual Salesmen
October 30, 2009The fall of ‘09 gave us a glimpse of another cultish movement gone bad: this time in an Arizona sweat lodge; apparently people have lost faith in the real deal led by Native Americans who’ve done this long and responsibly. The lesson was a painful one for the sweat lodge tragedy. In these hard times, […]
Ichabod's Kin 