If you have kids, you know the car is where all great conversations happen. Once upon a time, my husband's mistress unexpectedly showed up at our doorstep with a toddler in the car. As you might guess, a slightly emotional scene occurred.
The next day, as my daughters and I...
Vicki Larson | Posted March 4, 2011 | Divorce
If you're divorced, you know all too well about the numerous studies of how divorce impacts kids; what we rarely hear about is how children impact their parents' marriage. Not how tired, worried and poorer kids make us (and, yes, they do all of that), but what happens when things...
Lorelei Kelly | Posted March 4, 2011 | Politics
Last night, Columbia University's Task Force on Military Engagement released its findings. ROTC--the Reserve Officer's Training Corps--is welcome back on campus. Harvard followed suit. Both pro and con voices at these Ivy League schools have legitimate feelings about a uniformed presence on campus. The recent difficult conversation was important. The...
Craig Crawford | Posted March 4, 2011 | Politics
In an era when criminal bankers go free how did we decide that teachers should be punished?
Commentary I've seen maligning teachers as fat cats draining tax dollars is really stunning. A favorite theme for teacher-haters is that they don't have to work during the summer. OK fine, if you...
Jason Derr | Posted March 4, 2011 | Religion
Cognitive scientist George Lakoff, in his major work of philosophy, Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenges to Modern Thought, explores the notion of time as partly the correlation of events and as partly characterized by metaphor. Time, he points out, is defined by conflicting...
Mike Ragogna | Posted March 4, 2011 | Entertainment
photo credit: Greg Cohen
LA Weekly declared that Jim Bianco "...has catapulted himself onto the level of eclectic song craft on par with Elvis Costello and Tom Waits." Bianco's album Loudmouth drops April 5th, with "Sinners" as the first single. "The song is...
Christine A. Scheller | Posted March 4, 2011 | Religion
If the poor will always be with us, as Jesus said, then why don't we always see them? Learning from "the least of these" with author and urban ministry leader Arloa Sutter.
Two stories stand out in Arloa Sutter's new book, The Invisible: What the Church Can Do...
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. | Posted March 4, 2011 | Religion
Jon Stewart made a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to get former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to admit the Iraq War was a colossal mistake sold by lies. Unlike Robert McNamara who offered a too-little, too-late mea culpa about Vietnam, Rumsfeld did his best to dodge all culpability...
Cathleen Falsani | Posted March 3, 2011 | Religion
Art is maddeningly dynamic. It does not, and will not, mean the same thing to one person as it does to another.
Depending on our individual lenses, histories, predilections and aversions for interpretation, each of us experiences a works of art in just that way: individually, personally,...
Vinod Thomas | Posted March 3, 2011 | World
The global financial crisis and the spike in food prices have pushed millions of people into poverty worldwide. By the end of 2010, the financial crisis is estimated to have added some 64 million people to the ranks of the poor who live under $1.25 a day. Meanwhile,...
John Backman | Posted March 3, 2011 | Religion
On the surface, it seemed like every professional event I've ever attended: dozens of my colleagues in marketing and advertising, all chatting at once, discussing the latest ad campaigns and agency gossip and the ever-present "how's business?"
The big difference was the timing. I had never before attended a...
Miroslav Volf | Posted March 3, 2011 | Religion
Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side. But can Muslims and Christians work together to...
Bob Cesca | Posted March 4, 2011 | Politics
We can't know for sure whether or not she recognizes how unserious and unintelligent she is, but, in Sarah Palin, we can plainly see a reality show celebrity who seems to believe that national office doesn't require the widely accepted prerequisite of "knowing things" -- especially things that squarely relate...
Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald | Posted March 3, 2011 | Religion
We've all been plugged in for so long, we now find ourselves a bit lost if not tethered or wirelessly connected. It seems as if everyone is now telling us to unplug -- productivity experts, physicians, shrinks, religious organizations, and even Oprah.
But when we try to unplug, we become...
Robert Redford | Posted March 3, 2011 | Green
In 2008 a young environmental activist named Tim DeChristopher bid on 13 parcels of land quietly put up for auction by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the waning days of the Bush Administration. This land was part of a larger offering by the BLM of federal...
Alan Black | Posted March 3, 2011 | Sports
If you are small and are forced to wear a big overcoat things can get hot and dizzy and you can find yourself out of place. This best describes the intimate bedfellows of Scottish soccer, Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic. Scotland's biggest clubs thrive on a fierce, globally supported rivalry...
Judy Kurtz | Posted March 3, 2011 | Entertainment
Shining Star - Charlie Sheen
Just last week, if someone mentioned a "goddess" you might think of Aphrodite, the word "winning" just meant you weren't a loser, and "tiger blood" would probably be a reference to the stuff that runs through the veins...
Lawrence Lessig | Posted March 3, 2011 | Politics
Mark McKinnon -- the Republican campaign consultant who helped create George W. Bush, and who for a time ran John McCain's campaign -- and I don't agree about much. We do agree about the need for fundamental reform of the way campaigns are funded. About a year ago,...
Arthur Goldstein | Posted March 3, 2011 | Education
It's tough being a teacher nowadays. In Wisconsin, they want to kill collective bargaining and do whatever they wish. Mayor Bloomberg doesn't want to look as extreme as Scott Walker, so he's simply rolled out a bill that would pretty much let him fire anyone he feels like firing....
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Sharon Zarozny | Posted March 4, 2011 | Divorce