How to Bring Joy to Harry & David
There is trouble at Harry & David’s. The Oregon company, which began by selling pears and now does a major mail-order business with its “fruit-of-the-month” offerings, Moose Munch popcorn, and related products, has recently experienced another senior management change. This time the new CEO has broken tradition by choosing to live in Atlanta rather than […]
The “Not Proven” Option
One of the most helpful commentaries on the Casey Anthony verdict was by Marcia Clark, in a posting at The Daily Beast....
The Burqa and the Habit
The Muslim scholar and I were sitting at dinner together, and he was telling me about his involvement in a Muslim project...
Remembering John Hick
I just read in the Christian Century that John Hick died in February, at the age of 90. I saw him as an important...
On Humility
Lisa Miller wrote a nice Newsweek column recently on the subject of humility—go here to read it.
She noted the frequency...
Giving Gethsemane its Due
My friend Robert Millet wrote an interesting book two years ago, with the title What Happened to the Cross? Bob is a...
A Vote for a Poetic Revision
Although it is not exactly a Christmas hymn, the words (and tune) of “In Christ Alone” were going through my head often...
Small People, Little People
BP, as we all know, is in big trouble as the oil continues to spill into the Gulf waters. But recently the...
Dealing with “Alterations”
A few years ago the travel section of one of the newspapers did a lighthearted feature on some of the funniest English-language...
On How “We Hold These Truths”
I heard someone say recently, in connection with whether a Mormon could be president, that John Kennedy had faced similar opposition because...
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