by Larry Greenfield | Jan 24, 2011 | Opinion
There once was a time when Paul Krugman, by his own admission, wasn’t particularly active in public debate about policy issues confronting the country and the world. But for the last decade or so, no one would accuse the Nobel Prize winner in economics, who...
by Larry Greenfield | Jan 6, 2011 | Opinion
For the first time in U.S. history, the nation’s House of Representatives will begin its new session with a complete oral reading of our country’s Constitution. Great idea! I don’t have a clue why this hasn’t happened before, not just in the...
by Larry Greenfield | Dec 17, 2010 | Opinion
I think I have a decent theory on why the committee choosing lectionary texts for Advent in Year A of the reading cycle chose a passage from James. It goes something like this: Because the Advent season promotes the virtues of “waiting” and...
by Larry Greenfield | Nov 12, 2010 | Opinion
While discoursing during his final week in Jerusalem on the fate of the temple, Jesus tells his disciples that not only will it be laid to ruins (“not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down”), but also that some of the disciples will...
by Larry Greenfield | Oct 28, 2010 | Opinion
Height-challenged Zacchaeus gets high marks from Jesus, not just for climbing that sycamore tree, and not just for taking up the itinerant rabbi’s wish to dine and stay at his house, but most of all for agreeing to give half of his possessions to the poor and...
