Opening Blind Eyes to Reclaim Our World

Opening Blind Eyes to Reclaim Our World

It is someone else’s problem, not ours. That’s how many of us white people have felt if we haven’t seen racial injustice up close and personal. It hasn’t been completely real or relevant. No longer. I live in Louisville, Kentucky, where in May, amid news of Ahmaud...

After Boston Tragedy, We Must Be Light in Darkness

The routine of Monday’s workday was blown apart by incoming reports of bombs exploding at the finish line of the iconic Boston Marathon. Someone’s, or some group’s, hatred of the way life’s race is being run motivated them to detonate hidden...

What Basketball Teaches Us About the Common Good

Amid all the game playing in Washington and in Frankfort, Ky., perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from Kentucky’s other religion: basketball. Recently, the Courier-Journal sports section questioned whether University of Louisville center Gorgui Dieng is...

Answers Elusive for Refugees in Morocco

We left the Hotel Oujda at 6:30 a.m. to catch the train to Fez. It was a relief to check out of the 1970s-looking hotel that could qualify as shabby-chic if the owners had been going for that look intentionally. There are many fine hotels in Morocco. This wasn’t...