What’s a Human Being Worth?
The human body, composed mostly of water, plus trace amounts of silicon, manganese, fluorine, copper, zinc, arsenic, and aluminum, is worth about $1. If you were able to include your ...
The Lying Season
Thank God, we’re almost through one of the worst “lying seasons” ever. That’s what I call the time before elections when candidates air campaign ads full of wild exaggerations, half-truths ...
How to Improve Our Vision
I recently finished reading a novel called, “Have You Seen Luis Velez” by one of my favorite authors, Catherine Ryan Hyde. It’s an unusual title, I know, but no more ...
Can You Inherit Faith, Like Silverware?
I’ve often wondered what motivated my grandmother, Julia McNulty Carney, to communicate with a cousin in Ireland she had never met. And this was in the age of “slow mail.” ...
The Futility of Trying to Impose Faith
An opinion piece in a recent edition of Rolling Stone magazine by Tim Dickinson was about Lance Wallnau, whom he describes as “a self-styled ‘prophet’ and one of America’s most ...
Spirituality Part of What Makes Us Human
A man in his 40s has recently lost his mother. At first, he was able to take her death in stride. He tried not to think about it. But after ...