by Sam Chaise | Jul 23, 2014 | Opinion
It is all too easy for us to take on, osmosis-like, the group norms of our culture. Patterns of thinking, informal norms of acceptable and unacceptable levels of emotion and conflict, unwritten shared assumptions about ethics—all of these exist within cultures (and...
by Sam Chaise | Feb 28, 2014 | Opinion
Christmas ended six weeks ago and Lent starts Wednesday. We are currently in Epiphany, the season of the church year in which we journey with Jesus through the three years of public ministry he had on the earth. Some traditions call this “Ordinary Time”...