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Living as we do in a “remote location,” a mile down a dead end dirt road, we are not “on […]

Some years ago I was asked to say a prayer at the Memorial Day event in Bronxville, New York. So

Why do we feed birds? For the five years when we had two cats, we could have claimed we did

No force in human life is more dangerous than religion. Calling on the faithful for total commitment, it opens the

It’s been a good week for change. Counting down in Iraq, counting down at Guantanamo, putting a stop to torture.

The controversy over the choice of Rick Warren to offer prayer on Inauguration Day led me to look again at

I had an ex-mail exchange recently with someone abut the use of “Rev.” in relationship to my last name. It

In the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stephen Pinker, a professor at Harvard, write a surprisingly stupid article saying

We live between two villages. It’s 4.5 miles down hill and east to Cornwall Bridge, 8 miles down hill and

In 1850, under pressure from the southern States, the Congress of the United States passed a “Fugitive Slave Act” which