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On September 11, 2001, America suffered the worst terrorist attacks to have occurred in the modern era. Three thousand people died, thousands more were injured, and thousands more lives were shortened or were damaged in the aftermath. …

Things to do instead of a Boogaloo “Has it ever occurred to you,” Evangelical pastor A. W. Tozer asked, in his spiritual classic Pursuit of God, “that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?” He was talking to Christians about God, and while I think talking about God is…

One of the things that struck me last night was that Mike Pence is a neoliberal and a conservative Christian in that distinctly American style, but he is not a full Kool-Aid drinking Trump supporter, and that means that: a) when he tries to resort to Trump-like manipulation, it has…

It is vitally important that we learn to create a kind of stillness in ourselves that allows us to see things as they are. I mean, it is not vitally important if we decide we’d like to become enlightened beings. I mean it is vitally important if we want to…

Every American I know who identifies as a Democrat or who is sympathetic to the Democrats is on a pike right now. So am I. We feel this way because we know what’s about to happen. Mitch McConnell, who four years ago denied President Obama the right to appoint a…

Seven ideas for a meaningful way forward. In the throes of quarantine, I wonder whether we can sense the tectonic forces that have begun to shift around us. Handshakes may be gone for good, and masks may regularly re-appear from now on. Big-ticket political discussions have gained new dimensions. …

It’s not hard to say that America has transitioned from a society in which the values were primarily determined by religion to a society in which the values are primarily determined by consumerism. …