The religious tradition that I was raised in is filled with the symbolism of spiritual warfare – demons and angels, hellfire and brimstone, last minute salvation and heroism. It was rather thrilling stuff in retrospect and certainly very capable of capturing my attention and fears as a child. When a person was living through a […]

In entertainment, we talk a lot about superheroes, but today I want to talk about everyday heroes. I work at a small college. Two weeks ago a former student came into our campus coffee shop and attacked members of our campus community with a knife. It was a stunning and unexpected assault on a small […]

On Tuesday, March 7 a statue of a small girl in a defiant pose was placed in the path of the charging bull of Wall Street. A day before the International Day of the Woman, it was installed by State Street Global Advisors, a nearly $2,5 trillion investor as part of a campaign to pressure […]