A couple of weeks ago, the President of Iran visited Rome. Since he was planning to visit the Capitoline Museum, it was decided, by someone – the news reports were a little vague — to cover up statues of classical nudes so as to not offend him. Wooden boxes were...

 Question. My great friend Dr. Mike Sperber always asks huge questions. “So where did we come from?” he calmly asks as we speed down Rt. 128 – he’s taking me to a doctor’s appointment. Do you have a friend like that?   It stirred thoughts that had been forming in my...

One Monday morning some years ago, I was with a group of people from my home church, preparing to leave our sleeping quarters in New Orleans to head out to work on a flooded home.  “Don’t make lunch,” we were told.  “Some friends of the owners are planning to bring...

We are a nation in a time of great division – of starkly different visions.  When I see news reports of all the conflict we are experiencing these days, I am struck by a sense that America is living in a place of deep fear.  [download id="264"]