In COVID-19 Era, Back to Where We’ve Never Been

In COVID-19 Era, Back to Where We’ve Never Been

The title of Thomas Wolfe’s novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again,” has become a popular aphorism for the reality of change on many levels of human experience. It joins the ancient words of Heraclitus, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same...
How to Move Forward When Society Exiles Our Values

How to Move Forward When Society Exiles Our Values

“Exile” is a very negative word, conjuring up images of forced deportation and political banishment. Even in the milder forms of some traditions’ practice of “shunning” those who have misbehaved, a kind of social and psychological exile alienates one from the...