“Take… take… TAKE!!” – Enough.
Recently, I went to Israel. I floated in the Dead Sea. I walked along the Jordan River. I baptised somebody in the Sea of Galilee. For those who don’t know […]
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Facebook Changed My Birthday
Last week my birthday arrived. It was a regular one, one could say, without any big celebration but with my wife at dinner. My youngest son just turned one, and […]
Groundhog Day Hermeneutics
For years I showed the movie Groundhog Day to the high school students whom I taught World Religions. The movie, if you haven’t seen it, stars Bill Murray, who plays […]
Rediscovering Home
This summer, we took a vacation at home. A different home, I mean, someone else’s home but which was to be our home for two weeks. It was our first […]
Shopping for Life?
There was a time when people bought cars because they got them from A to B. Not so anymore. Today’s consumers buy cars that are ‘engineered to move the human […]
The Last Generation?
Should we deliberately make ourselves the last generation on earth? It sounds like a crazy question, but a few years ago, Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer wrote a piece in The […]
Can You Hear the Music?
It was rush hour at the metro station L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of people were heading to their work on that cold January morning. Suddenly, a man wearing a […]
