I opened my mail today to find a copy of Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People, a great little volume by Jennifer Gamber and Sharon Ely Pearson, published by Morehouse. It was sent to me by... Read More »

The Episcopal monastery of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist is not on a remote mountaintop but in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, home to Harvard and M.I.T. – hardly a tranquil... Read More »

The following story in the June 28, 2012 New York Times immediately caught my eye: Flavor Is Price of Scarlet Hue of Tomatoes, Study Finds “A gene mutation that makes a tomato uniformly red... Read More »

Global education, hands-on learning, and service to others have gained increasing traction in schools, colleges, and universities. Today, middle school, high school, and college students take their... Read More »

Lately I have been thinking a good deal about a well-used phrase in our society, “moving forward.” It pops up in some cases when describing how we proceed into the future; in other... Read More »

In a May 17 headline entitled “Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.,” The New York Times confirmed a well-known trend: the United States is rapidly becoming a multi-racial and... Read More »

Crazy cooks. Big-toothed monsters. Whales in chicken soup with rice. Maurice Sendak defied the notion of a simple, safe world. With childhood as his foil, he explored the fanciful and the... Read More »

I once again had the privilege of hearing the Rev. Paul Lawrence–Wehmiller, this time at the New York State Association of Independent School’s annual Diversity Conference, the theme of... Read More »

On Palm Sunday, the New York Times Magazine carried an interesting article about a woman who identified herself as a “prodigal child,” when it came to churchgoing. As she began, in her... Read More »

As a child, I loved Palm Sunday. While the rest of Lent focused on what we were “giving up,” we actually “got” something on Palm Sunday—a gift from heaven, as it were.... Read More »