What We Consider “Essential”

June 24, 2020

What a country considers essential tells us a lot about its culture. BBC, Coronavirus: The unexpected items deemed ‘essential’ “Pandemic shopping” …

Echoes from a Birmingham Jail

June 1, 2020

Addressed to his fellow clergy, Martin Luther King Jr. felt compelled to respond to a statement made by some clergy …

May 28, 2020

It just won’t end, will it? How many more times do we have to see this? The recent case (May …

May 27, 2020

Crisis has a way of washing away respectable layers of hidden evaluations to expose what a person really values. This …

May 20, 2020

Near There are many images of the times we are in. The one above is closest to home – the …

May 18, 2020

How do you count the 74 days between shooting of Ahmaud Aubrey and laying the first charges against the white …

May 16, 2020

Days after we celebrated Mother’s Day, on Tuesday May 12 at about 10:00 a.m. Afghan time, three gunmen walked straight past …