Some of humanity’s most tyrannical leaders have used children to help preserve their position. They’ve used them as both photo-op props to attract support and as human shields to repel attack. Only one leader has ever elevated children as role…
Death of a Salesman was the story of Willy Loman, a doomed man in a dying profession. Playwright Arthur Miller wrote him as a man possessed by the desire to make a good living. What he sold was much less…
Any dream featuring Adolph Hitler would be classified as a nightmare, but what would you call a dream featuring Adolph Hitler wearing a pig mask, interrogating you for some vital information only you have? That nightmare terrorizes Jennifer Doudna, a…
Going for my noon walk the other day, I approached a yard with two untethered dogs and no physical fence. “Do the owners use an invisible fence?,” I wondered (the kind of system that uses a shock collar to remind dogs…
If familiarity breeds contempt, how can some couples stay married 80 years or more? Zelmyra and Herbert Fisher, who broke The Guinness World Record for the longest marriage (84 years) in 2008, but lived to tack on three more, had some simple…
The place that hosted the first Pentecost was as much a source of confusion for the divided inhabitants of Jerusalem as the Tower of Babel was for the people described in the 11th chapter of Genesis who attempted to build a…
Jesus performed many miracles during his public life, but if all it took was a miracle to change people’s hearts, he wouldn’t have had to die. In fact, I wonder if Jesus sometimes worried that his miracles were becoming mere…
One of the laws Christians share with their Jewish brothers and sisters has to do with keeping kosher. Kosher means pure, or clean, and for the founder of Christianity, the term applied as much to the bodies into which we…
The early church had the same problems many of today’s fledgling organizations have: more poets than planners. As Christ’s 12 disciples started spreading their Master’s timeless words, they couldn’t keep up with the temporal works of infrastructure development needed to…
Imagine a place everyone wants to live, but it’s surrounded by a big beautiful wall. The wall is designed to protect the precious territory within, the mere thought of which gives searchers a warm feeling of freedom and well-being. The…