The truth is out there. But so are lies. This week, some pieces of the truth were emerging in a Minnesota courtroom. Here we pass that by with bowed head. Other pieces, one being an enormous cargo ship, were emerging, or not, from the Suez Canal, and I can’t elide them. Or one piece in … Continue reading Learning How Today’s World Works (& Doesn’t) Without Leaving Home
This is personal for me. Also religious. The Quaker Meeting I attend is in the country between Burlington & Pittsboro NC. Those cities and my home town, Durham, is served by the contaminated Haw river. And I lived/worked in Fayetteville (near Fort Bragg) for more than a decade, where the Haw (called there the Cape … Continue reading Drowning In Our Own Dirty Water
It’s Opening Day, and I have a confession to make. It’s not an April Fool. Here it is: it’s Opening Day, and I don’t care. And I’m not sure why. Is it part of the pandemic hangover, part of the “Old Normal” that was ripped away from us a year ago, now lost somewhere amid … Continue reading My Opening Day Confession
How do we find “truth” about what’s going on in our confused & confusing society? One source many often turn to for answers is public polls. If a big time pollster says something is happening, many of us still choose to believe it must be so. A prime example of this phenomenon is the decline … Continue reading The Big News That’s No News: U. S. Church Membership Falls Below 50%
Nick Kristof is the New York Times’s Certified Good-Guy columnist. While he’s an intrepid reporter, who has earned two Pulitzers, he’s best known for an uncanny ability to make even an unfolding tragedy like the one he recounts here feel like an upbeat family story. Almost effortlessly he turns it into what could be the … Continue reading The Nice Guy and the Madman Prophet