Awe: It Connects You With Others, Makes You Kinder

Awe was the focus of a Parade magazine article published in October. The author, Paula Spencer Scott, describes how the emotion of awe is getting more and more attention from researchers. “New studies show that it’s a dramatic feeling with the power to...

All over the map

Attending a meeting of SBL/AAR (the Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion) is not unlike strolling along San Antonio’s famed Riverwalk: options abound, and all of them interesting, at least to people of a certain bent. The Alamo is just...

How Your Church Looks Forward in Post-Election World

It finally came to an end. The 2016 presidential election was the most divisive, vitriolic campaign in modern history. Only those who voted for or against Grover Cleveland in 1892 would recognize the malicious nature of this campaign. Sixty percent of Americans said...

Neglecting Our Brothers, Sisters in Small Ways

I am the older of my two brothers. One is just 10½ months younger (so we share the same numerical age for six bemusing weeks) and the other, the baby of the family, is 2½ years younger. We are close in age, and growing up we were fierce in loyalty. I should add that...