Hellbound Happiness
As an inquisitive child who asked all the wrong questions at all the wrong times, I was often reprimanded for asking “worldly questions,” which, for those of you who were not raised in an evangelical... Read More
Front Page Choices and the American Ostrich Syndrome
Top and center this morning on the New York Times website is a video of how Prince Harry proposed to American actress Meghan Markle (in the print version the photo and article took up two-thirds... Read More
Michelangelo’s David: A Humanist Symbol
The much-touted show, “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer,” opens today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Comprised of 133 drawings by the Renaissance master, the exhibit will run for three months and promises quite an... Read More
America, Land of the Costly, Home of the Debtor’s Prison Poverty should never be a prison sentence.
The unjust murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, drew serious national attention to racially biased policing in this country. The Justice Department’s Ferguson Report also revealed draconian criminal justice procedures whereby low-income individuals were... Read More
Preserving Whose History?
With the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals’ decision to uphold the separation of church and state (by determining that the Bladensburg cross was a breach in the wall of separation), came a flurry of... Read More
Three Coming-Out Stories on National Coming Out Day
Today is the twenty-ninth anniversary of National Coming Out Day, a day for LGBTQ people to proudly express who they are to family, friends, and their communities. One out of every two Americans has someone... Read More
The Curious Case of the Missing—and Reappearing—Government Climate Change Data
Last week climate scientist Peter Gleick reported that the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Science Explorer—a taxpayer-funded online database for the public to browse USGS science programs and activities—had lost 5,516 formerly searchable climate science... Read More