Democrat and Proud

I am a Democrat and proud of it. I am proud to be a member of the party that brought us out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, that brought us to victory in World War II and more recently paid down a huge national debt, balanced the federal budget and helped get...

Integrating Faith and Science

Last month “Inherit the Wind,” the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, which is loosely based on the 1925 Scopes trial, received its first professional stage production in Nashville, Tenn. I was asked to be part of a public panel on religion and...

Pro-Life? Look at the Fruits

I am a Christian ethicist and trained in statistical analysis. I am consistently pro-life. My son David is one witness. For my family, “pro-life” is personal. My wife caught rubella in the eighth week of her pregnancy. We decided not to terminate but...

‘Raise Your Voice’

In “Raise Your Voice,” Hilary Duff plays Terri Fletcher, a small-town girl with big-city dreams. Terri wants to make music, and she sees the route to her dreams through the Bristol-Hillman Conservatory in Los Angeles. But something stands in her way: her...

Unity and Community

“One person said they had bottled water, another had ice, and someone had baked a coffee cake the night before and was offering it for breakfast. It was such a spirit of camaraderie,” said Sister Rosemary Finnegan, according to Catholic News Service....