With yesterday’s shooting at the Holocaust museum, I was reminded of a story told to me several years ago by a professor of when he had been a doctoral student. An eminent post-modern theologian had come to his university to [...]
With yesterday’s shooting at the Holocaust museum, I was reminded of a story told to me several years ago by a professor of when he had been a doctoral student. An eminent post-modern theologian had come to his university to [...]
In 2004, a little book appeared that made quite a splash among dispirited Democrats: George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant. In it, Lakoff argued that Republicans and Democrats worked out of two different “framing” stories–frames are “mental structures that [...]
The plot to bomb a Riverdale Synagogue in the Bronx makes all of us sick and angry about the use of religious violence and terror against ordinary citizens. The four accused men claim that their actions are in reaction to the [...]
Ten years ago today, I was in San Francisco leading a retreat for Episcopal clergy from the western United States. During the afternoon break, someone handed me a slip of paper saying that there had been a shooting at a [...]
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