A Church of Misfits
After years of decline and decay in mainline churches across the country, the vision of revival and renewal is clear.
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Philip N. Cohen: DeWayne McKinney's Improbable Life: After 19 Years for Wrongful Conviction, He Set Himself Free
DeWayne McKinney, who served 19 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, made a name for himself as the man who wouldn't devote his reclaimed life's energies to resentment and recrimination, and who famously invited the judge who sentenced him to his wedding.
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A Makeshift Synagogue and Me
Sundown Wednesday was Yom Kippur. I don't think I believe in God, and yet, my family, Jewish summer camp -- I don't know what they did to me, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for my religion.
This Isn't School, So Let Us Pray
Dear (insert the name of your god, supreme-being, spiritual leader or source of power and energy), please help let the power of love overcome the love of power.
Prop 8 = Prop Hate
Just who do extreme, hyper-religious, xenophobic heterosexuals think they are, to create and impose legislation upon people that neither directly nor indirectly involves nor effects them adversely in any way? God?
Presidential Candidates Lack Long-Term View on Long-Term Care
The case is clear: America is heading toward a fiscal tsunami. Surviving this wave will involve monumentally more than just shoring up the three key retirement pillars of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Japanese Women Don't Get Fat?
In her new book, Naomi Moriyama attempts to discover the secrets to the Japanese peoples' super low obesity rate -- 3%, the lowest in the industrialized world -- by dissecting her mother's kitchen.
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
What do you make of U.S.-born children who don't have the basics of an education? Or of children who have reportedly never seen a crayon?
The Sound of Silence
The mood in the sanctuary began to sour. By the tenth "Pffffffffff," our congregation, so recently a bastion of uplift and redemption, deteriorated into a hostile, hungry mob.
The Truth About Cheating Your Way to Standardized Test Success
I ask merely that teens taking the test receive some kind of punishment that any high school or college student would if caught lying to a professor, cheating on an exam or plagiarizing a paper.
Feel Your Boobies
For many moms, the reminders to do self breast exams go in one ear and out the other. Breast cancer survivor Leigh Hurst decided there must be a better way to encourage women to take the time.
A "Birds of a Feather" Campaign Strategy
Character assassination is grossly unfair, but it's not unfair to judge people by the company they keep. No man is an island, least of all in politics.
A Question of Faith
Bill Maher's new film "Religulous" is important -- not because I agree with Mr. Maher's opinions, but because I find his fundamental mission to call into question the certitude of all organized religions monumentally necessary. I'd even say it was God's work.
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