by Elizabeth Franklin | Dec 28, 2020 | Opinion
This year, we have all experienced grief in a new, confusing and prolonged way. We have collectively realized grief does not operate on our timeline, and we are exhausted. We are tired of lamenting, tired of mourning, tired of sitting in brokenness. But even though we...
by Fred Guttman | Dec 22, 2020 | Opinion
We are living in a very cold and dark time. Yes, it is cold outside and, yes, the darkness at this time of year is significant. And yet, we all know that COVID-19 – the loss of friends and loved ones, the loss of income and employment, the reality of illness and...
by Jim Hopkins | Jul 31, 2020 | Opinion
Spitting, licking fingers and high-fiving. These common practices will have to be curbed significantly by Major League Baseball players in the name of public health as their abbreviated season begins. This is demanding work because habits, by definition, are hard to...
by Jack Moline | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinion
We seem to have a fascination with work – we human beings. From the very beginning of the story we tell about ourselves in Western culture, we are first and foremost concerned about work. The first two words in the Hebrew Bible mean (depending on how you translate)...
by Jessica McDougald | Apr 2, 2020 | Opinion
I have always found myself fascinated by Sabbath. Not just your average Sunday kind of Sabbath. When I was little, I thought Sabbath was just another name for Sunday, when church-going folk went to church and came home to cut the grass, and not-church-going folk slept...