We Don’t Talk about Bruno
My four-year-old grandson, Leo, is crazy about the Disney movie, Encanto. It’s a musical about a family in Colombia whose on-and-off magical powers are not always helpful. Leo’s fascination doesn’t ...
More Than Tolerance Required
Luke Olliff, a 30-year-old resident of Atlanta, says he and his wife gradually shed their religious affiliations throughout their marriage. “My family thinks she convinced me to stop going to ...
Are We Born Blind?
One of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs, “The Boxer,” was released in 1969. The last lines of the first verse go like this: Still a man hears what he ...
How to Love “Church”
I love to fish, but I don’t go as often as I’d like. In fact, when we lived in Iowa I hardly ever went, mostly because in the area where ...
Is Wrong the New Right?
Bryce Miller, who formally worked at the newspaper where I was employed, is now a sportswriter for the San Diego Union Tribune. His very active life was recently interrupted by ...
Faith as War
The mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 of 2021, “included a large cohort that hoisted Confederate battle flags and Trump banners. But mixed among those standards were ...