Tell Me A Story About Who I Am
Who am I? Who are you? Who are we? What is that makes “us” a “we?” Some combination of these questions is nearly always whirring around in the background of […]
Stanley Fish and the emptiness of generic ‘grace’
Not long ago, Stanley Fish (professor of Humanities at Florida International University and public intellectual) took an opportunity to respond to critics who thought that a recent Coen brothers’ film, […]
Why does the world exist?
Why do you exist? Why do I? How can it be that these words on a computer screen – written in a distant place, carried by invisible impulses, displayed by […]
Early History is a Matter of Revelation
In his memoir Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama unveils something of the complex development of his identity. Written before his political career started, in his early 30s, Obama narrates […]
Religion, Violence, and the “Higher Questions”
When my kids were younger, I would often take refuge from the delights of dragging unwilling toddlers through a shopping mall by camping out for a few minutes at one […]
Easter Sunrise from Mount Cootha
As a pastor, sometimes I get to be a part of a cool story that takes a community to create… In the week leading up to Easter a bunch of […]
A Tale of Three Deaths
Yesterday’s Easter holiday coupled with the upcoming canonization ceremony for two popes this weekend here in Rome took my mind to a similar confluence which took place three Easters ago. […]
A Great Escape
As a mother of three, with all the stresses and strains and baggage (gallons of it in my hands, and now even in the under-eye area) that that entails, I […]
Broaden Out by Staying Local
My first article in this three-part series discussed how the internet’s Global Vision may promise to make us more broad-minded, but often actually makes us more narrow-minded than ever. My […]
The Weakness of a Week in the World
In my last article, “The Narrow Mind of the Global Village”, I suggested that although postmodern relativism and technology have promised that the Global Village will make us more broad-minded, […]
Wondering Fair 