Topic: Ethics
“Nothing Rob Bell has said is new,” says author and columnist Lisa Miller. “There has been this long conversation for twenty-five hundred years about what heaven is and who gets to go.” More
“Something like happiness, it sound frivolous, but it’s not frivolous. The purpose of society is to create a better quality of life for all the people. It’s not to create the highest amount of aggregate wealth,” says international business consultant and author David Rothkopf. More
“When they ask for public monies to fund putting out their particular point of view, that’s where we have a problem,” says Rev. Joseph Phelps of the Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. More
“It’s a spectacular opportunity for cross-culture associations that are peace-based, that are based in the holiness of this land,” says Steve Lozar, a council leader of the Salish Tribe in Montana. More
Read four poems by Brother Paul Quenon, who entered the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, in 1958. More
The widespread crisis in Japan is marked by ongoing relief efforts and acknowledgment of the impermanence of life. More
“The individual soldier often feels not that he or she is broken, but that the world itself is broken, and there is no easy fix for a broken world,” writes US Navy Commander Greg Parker. More
The temporary dwellings built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot “remind us that in some ways all of life is really temporary, and life is very fragile,” says Dani Passow. More
View a picture gallery of 21st -century sukkahs that explore themes of the Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles such shelter, hunger, sustenance, hospitality, and the temporary nature of all that surrounds us. More