Grief can happen any time you lose something — e.g., you lose a job or someone close to you dies. Grief can also happen at happy moments — e.g., people cry at weddings because they’re losing a relationship. So what do we do with grief? … read more.
On the day we lose an hour of sleep, let’s talk about the spiritual significance of sleep. I’ll read three poems about sleep and night, by Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson, each of whom finds a very different significance in sleep.
People like to talk about the importance of community. But what does that really mean? Is “community” just a fluffy feel-good buzzword? What does it take to make community a living entity in this post-COVID increasingly multicultural world?
How can we understand evil in our time? The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein argued that evil reaches its ultimate goal in the destruction of individuality. How might that apply to some of the big moral questions facing us today?
