by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Dec 11, 2008 | Opinion
Judaism is going through a spiritual renaissance, but I worry that our quest for the mystical is at the cost of the intellectual. Jews want to chant and meditate, rather than learn how to creatively misread Torah in order to midwife new wisdom from ancient texts. And...
by David McCollum | Dec 11, 2008 | Opinion
Cheryl Allen is a senior pastor because she literally has gone where no man would go. They had that strange look and air about them, the men who visited Berea Baptist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa, that Sunday morning. Near the end of the service, the men...
by Mark Johnson | Dec 11, 2008 | Opinion
The Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is an organization of 1,400 parents and supporters who recently petitioned 24 major toy companies to limit their holiday ads aimed at children this season. Their point was a simple one. The avalanche of holiday...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 10, 2008 | Opinion
Last summer, for a few halcyon days, blackberries were abundant on the edge of a field near our house, and I enjoyed them immensely. A few of them are still around, in the form of some runny blackberry jelly I tried to make with no sugar.Lately, though, talk of...
by Richard Vinson | Dec 10, 2008 | Opinion
Help can come from many sources, and true leaders are not always the people up front waving their arms. As we can learn from Naaman’s experience, slaves can give great advice to generals, and servants can know better than kings what needs to be done. Fred...
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 10, 2008 | Opinion
Hardly anything has been reported about how religious leaders are responding to the economic crisis, or even their present failure to be as forceful on behalf of the vulnerable as they have tried to be when working to influence elections and boost the political clout...
