Embracing the Salvific Power of Art

12.09.2018 ________________________________________ I wasn’t going to write a column this week. I was going to take a break and step Continue reading →

Advent: Reflecting Upon a Caravan to Bethlehem

12.02.2018 ________________________________________ Today, according to the Christian calendar, is the first Sunday of Advent, the season observed in many Christian Continue reading →

Rich Enough to Get Away With Murder

11.25.2018 ________________________________________ “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them,” Donald Trump said in 2015. “They buy apartments from Continue reading →

Striving For Equal Standing in America’s Public Square

11.18.2018 ________________________________________  Thursday, November 15, 2018, I was honored as the 2018 recipient of the Loeb School of Communications First Continue reading →

The Fruit Of the Righteous Is A Tree Of Life

11.04.2018 ________________________________________ On July 2, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted a picture of Hillary Clinton as the “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” Continue reading →

Beware the Pirates of Intellect

10.28.2018 ________________________________________ The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 racist novel by Frenchman Jean Raspail that purports to depict the Continue reading →

Violence. Values. Voting: With Whom Do You Stand?

10.21.2018 ________________________________________ In 1963, in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “We will have Continue reading →

Today, Stand With and Celebrate Jamal Khashoggi

10.14.2018 ________________________________________  I’ve known Jamal Khashoggi since the 1980s when I met him in Jeddah and he worked for the Continue reading →