Bridging the Divides
“Minority Students Say They Face Social Segregation and Indifference” reads the subtitle of a hefty article in the October 21 New York Times about racial and socio-economic divides in... Read More »
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On Distracting Ourselves
This past week the Wall Street Journal carried a sobering article about the increase in childhood accidents, and the possibility that they might be related to the supervising adult being distracted... Read More »
Beyond Happiness
This evening is the start of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, a solemn time spent in prayerful reflection on the sins of the past year, petitions for forgiveness, and a fresh start for the new year... Read More »
Truth and Lies
The tsunami of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods swirling around the current presidential campaign brought to mind a phone conversation I had with an irate parent early in my career at a boarding... Read More »
The Power of Words
In a recent study to investigate the impact that certain words can have over peoples’ actions, each person in two control groups was given $10. In both groups, each person was told that he or... Read More »
All We Can Do Is Pray!
This past month, in a pastoral letter to all Episcopalians in the Diocese of Colorado, Bishop Robert O’Neill expressed his heartfelt sadness and concern for the victims, survivors, and families... Read More »
If Augustine Was a Teenager
I opened my mail today to find a copy of Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People, a great little volume by Jennifer Gamber and Sharon Ely Pearson, published by Morehouse. It was sent to me by... Read More »
Hearing God’s Whisper
The Episcopal monastery of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist is not on a remote mountaintop but in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, home to Harvard and M.I.T. – hardly a tranquil... Read More »
What Schools Can Learn from Tomatoes
The following story in the June 28, 2012 New York Times immediately caught my eye: Flavor Is Price of Scarlet Hue of Tomatoes, Study Finds “A gene mutation that makes a tomato uniformly red... Read More »
Avoiding “Voluntourism”
Global education, hands-on learning, and service to others have gained increasing traction in schools, colleges, and universities. Today, middle school, high school, and college students take their... Read More »