Looking for compromises to address our current divisions seems like a good idea until you look at how compromises have functioned...

The old saying “Don’t change horses in the middle of a stream” may help us understand Trump voters who still support him after so much...

In the past few months, D.E.I, has been attacked by its critics and abandoned by many of its supporters.   Has it overstepped its...

Many in my generation have fathers who fought in WWII, and a common story is that they never talked about it.  One could say they...

There is nothing simple about identity politics, even though it belongs to the basic creed of our nation: E pluribus unum out of many,...

Is this question like the question of how did the fox get into the chicken coop?  If so, then we might focus on the failure of...

In his book on the civil sphere, the sociologist Jeffery Alexander makes a distinction between State and Civil power.  Many of us are...

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On the one hand, our pluralistic society is taking a serious hit. On the other hand, communities of solidarity are supporting each...

The post below was written just over a year ago, but it seems even more relevant now. David French recently wrote in the NYTimes that it...

Even before its publication, the title of my book, Twenty Steps Toward a Climate of Justice, has taken on a new meaning. Trump’s...

As I have been writing this blog for the past four years, I have been watching the ebb and flow of the climate of justice. Well, lately...

Remember the talk about “turning the page”?   Turns out, we did turn the page.  We turned the page back to where we had been instead of...

Some say that the problem is Trump.  He is to blame for our situation.  Many, it seems, see him as the solution to the problem.  That’s...

If one’s “conscience” refers to one’s awareness or focus, then there doesn’t seem to be much space or time in this campaign for a “civic...

What is joy in a climate of injustice?  How should we think about Kamala Harris’s politics of joy?   First, it is a radical contrast from...

If God were a just God, who created everyone, then it seems weird that god would choose some people over others.  Or, put it another way,...

Both the sacred and the solemn elicit reverence, a reverence for something other than our selves.  Both invite us to be reverent, but...

If I understand you correctly, you want to do “God’s will,” and that you know “God’s will” from the Bible, which is “God’s Word.”  In...

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