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“When did it become accepted that actions that are right and moral – like paying employees a decent wage – have to be explained away and justified?  When did we accept the notion that people should be moral in their lives but that the moment they show up for work their morality is subsumed by…

In today’s USA Today Faith and Reason column, Cathy Lynn Grossman discusses President Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. If Kagan’s nomination is accepted, Grossman points out, there will be six Catholic justices, three Jewish justices (Kagan is Jewish) and no protestant Christian justices on the Court. This, of course,…

In a recent interview for a position in the highly competitive NBC page program, one of my students was asked for a list of five things he could do with a pencil. I had him share the encounter with the rest of his class – including his list of five very creative answers – to…

Who are the “Beautiful Losers” in your life? Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.

Chapter 1: Struck Thirty-seven is way too young to be having a heart attack, I thought, resting my hand on my chest and struggling to catch my breath. I’m sure it’s nothing. But somewhere deep inside I knew I was lying to myself. Although I was a firm believer in mind over matter, my attempts to…

Twitter is pretty grim tonight. Breaking news about the evacuation of Times Square due to what appears to be a car bomb, floods in Tennessee with the potential for more inclement weather and a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with potential to be the worst environmental disaster in US history.  As I…

Check out an interesting take on positive thinking and the law of attraction. Love to hear what you think…

Is lying wrong?  How about cheating?  Stealing? My 1970s/80s upbringing was clear. While moral dilemmas like a person stealing food for a hungry child or a guest politely telling someone that dinner tastes great when the chicken is dry may have been debate-worthy topics in a philosophy class, lying, cheating and stealing were just wrong.   Is that…

I came across and chilling and insightful post by a young blogger named Liz Bernard who writes brilliantly at Portrait of a Dreamer. She discussed her reaction to this story about a man who stepped in when a woman was getting mugged on a street in New York City. The  assailant stabbed the man, who…

I watched this video from I Am Second (a movement that is described as one that is “meant to inspire people of all kinds to live for God and for others”) with mixed emotions. On the one hand, this young actress appears to have a very strong sense of who she is – as an artist and in terms of…
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