The following interview with Gerard Straub was authored by Lucky Severson and reproduced with the permission of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, a PBS production of Thirteen/WNET. A link to the original story can be found here. LUCKY SEVERSON: By most standards, Gerry Straub’s career is in a...

When Don asked me to contribute to this site I jumped at the chance. It was not feelings of altruism that led me — it was the fact that he tricked me into believing that I’d get to meet Cornel West. Well, almost. But, in truth, I am excited about editing this column for very different...

December 1st was World AIDS Day. This pandemic will cause 6,000 kids to become orphaned today and every day until the world community — you and me and our leaders — does something drastic. 14,000,000 have already lost one or both parents, and many children are struggling to raise their...