by Tim Jones | Nov 28, 2012 | Opinion
At the start of her Jubilee year, the Queen of England said to a meeting of faith leaders “the concept of a Jubilee is rooted in the Bible.” She failed to mention that a biblical jubilee has nothing to do with celebrating a monarch’s reign, but was a...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Oct 17, 2012 | Opinion
“It’s the economy, stupid” was Bill Clinton’s successful presidential campaign slogan in 1992. Economics began as the science of political economy, but now most conventional economists regard the economy as a quasi-autonomous area of human...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Oct 12, 2012 | Opinion
Sustainability has become one of the most important issues in our time, and in a hundred years, it may be the single most important issue. We have heard that if we do not sustain our resources, we are on the road to destruction. On this issue, Winona LaDuke, a noted...
by Bob Newell | Oct 11, 2012 | Opinion
In response to the crushing economic crisis in Greece, I have been working to improve my greatly underutilized capacity to empathize with my Greek and Albanian friends. As I have turned up the volume on my faulty hearing and labored to hone my otherwise distracted...
by Larry Greenfield | Sep 7, 2012 | Opinion
It’s just speculation, but you have to wonder whether the disciples of Jesus thought he was heading in the wrong direction. That’s when Jesus decided to head west and a little north to the region of Tyre. Not that the disciples took exception to why Jesus...
