It’s encouraging to see more tempered rhetoric about climate change in light of the fact that we’re in a 15-year plateau of global temperatures which climate skeptics cite as evidence that global warming has stopped. Climate change proponents have adopted a less strident tone, allowing for what science still doesn’t know about the pace of…Read More

It is an incredible story and there are many interwoven dimensions that are moving and captivating. I love the interplay among a very personal history, the political context, the moral and philosophical questions and the deep spiritual quest that underlines it all. I find this approach powerful as it is the expression of a holistic…Read More

When God Talks Back

In C.s. Lewis

When I read “Strength to Love,” a tremendous collection of Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermons, I was surprised and moved on its last pages by this particular passage, which described God in ways that feel foreign to me. While I think of God as a kind of spiritual energy, Martin Luther King Jr. related to…Read More


I finished your book last week and regretted that I had come to the last chapter. Your life-story is so powerful and your voice, as the narrator, so strong and so honest, I did not want to stop reading. Your unrelenting pursuit of the definition of “good,” both intellectually and spiritually, has increased my awareness…Read More


I still have the photograph of my brother and me shaking hands with Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson. As I look at it, my mind goes back to a balmy evening in April of 1954. I was 15 years old and my father proudly brought his two sons to the first baseball game of…Read More