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Does it matter how we care for those who have died? New post on the Park Forum: The Moral Implications of Mourning

This post appeared yesterday on the Park Forum, and the issues it raises are important enough to me that I wanted to repost it in its entirety here, with some additional questions at the end: The title of the article gives away much of the content: Three Babies Aborted Every Day Due to Down Syndrome.…

New Post on the Park Forum: “Private Love and Public Hope” about the Obama’s marriage.

“Because we are mortal, and because all religion responds to mortality, our intimations of the sacred arise from our experience of the tension between the mortal existence of humankind and the eternal life of God.” –David P. Goldman, in “Sacred Music, Sacred Time,” First Things Even Adam and Eve weren’t created immortal. Mortality is constitutive…

I was drinking a hot toddy (is that how it’s spelled? and, yes, I had a bad cold) with a friend in Boston last week, and we were talking about education. I told her that Peter and I have been particularly interested in a fledgling movement in public school education whereby cities have established urban…

New Post on the Park Forum: “That They All May Be One.”

New post on the Park Forum: Natural Disasters. Incidentally, there’s an interesting comment with a link to a video clip posted here too. More to come on the education topic… soon…

We’ve lived in a boarding school for seven years now, and six of those have been in a dorm with thirty high school boys. In general, it’s been great (I have blocked out last year, when William left us so sleep-deprived that we couldn’t see straight and I didn’t even learn the boys’ names). And…

Hi all, I just noticed that my book, Penelope Ayers, is on sale on amazon.com at the moment for $11.69 (how on earth they set these prices, I have no idea). Click here if you’re interested. I just returned from a week of book-related events in the Boston area, so the story is on my…

A few months ago, Ken Myers, of the Mars Hill Audio Journal (if you don’t know about this, I highly recommend checking it out), interviewed a historian. Of course, I can no longer remember the historian’s name, or the name of the Enlightenment thinker about which he spoke. Sorry. What I do remember, and what…
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