“I’m sure God sent them to us.” Politicians love to claim credit for the big – and best changes – of history. Life is rarely so simple. There are those odd little movements like twitches on obscure nerve endings that end up reverberating throughout cultures and eras. The twentieth anniversary...

When I was a kid, we used to play the “opposite game”. A typical conversation would go like this; Me: “I’m not hungry.” My brother: “I’m really not hungry.” Me: “I’m really, really, not hungry.  I’m so not hungry that I couldn’t...

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -Rainer Maria Rilke What question would you ask God? I was naive enough to raise that question in my class at the county jail. These guys; felons, addicts, forty year old high school...