by Sam Chaise | Aug 21, 2014 | Opinion
Should people be free to choose their own religion? Yes. This, to me, seems like such an obvious answer that I am flabbergasted that in much of the world, the de facto reality on the ground is “no.” Even in cases where, on paper, there is religious... by Sam Chaise | Aug 8, 2014 | Opinion
Does it feel like a lot is going on in our world right now? ISIS kicking out Christians in Mosul. Strikes on Gaza to destroy tunnels, which were built to attack Israel. Ebola in West Africa. Syria. Central African Republic. Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17. I am well... by Sam Chaise | Jul 23, 2014 | Opinion
It is all too easy for us to take on, osmosis-like, the group norms of our culture. Patterns of thinking, informal norms of acceptable and unacceptable levels of emotion and conflict, unwritten shared assumptions about ethics—all of these exist within cultures (and... by Sam Chaise | Feb 28, 2014 | Opinion
Christmas ended six weeks ago and Lent starts Wednesday. We are currently in Epiphany, the season of the church year in which we journey with Jesus through the three years of public ministry he had on the earth. Some traditions call this “Ordinary Time”...
