Hope Rings, So Defiant (and Climbs a Flagpole)
Sometimes, indeed, a picture tells a thousand words. Or, in this case, several pictures – which add up, in my book, to …
The Images We Live By: International Women’s Day 2015
International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8 around the world. I was honored to be invited to participate this morning, …
Gendering Exclusion in El Salvador
What if our blindness toward other people also produces a tragic blindness toward God, the Other? – Joerg Rieger, God and the …
Will the Real (Miss) America Please Stand Up?
This week, Twitter has been in a twitter after the winner of the Miss America Pageant 2014 was proclaimed. Nina Davuluri (Miss …
Coming of Age in America? The Dream Fifty Years Later*
While the blogosphere has been lit up with discussion of Miley Cyrus’s and Robin Thicke’s Video Music Awards spectacle – a sad …
“To Boldly Go…”: The Next Generation
Editor’s Note: I am delighted to share another dispatch from Mr. Randy Gamble of Memphis, Tennessee. I especially appreciate Randy’s observations about …
So Much More Than a First Lady (from the UK Guardian)
The following article excerpted from Robert McCrum / The Observer, Saturday 29 June 2013 As the world waits for Mandela to make …
Race, The Masculine and The Feminine
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you e e cummings …
Resilience
About a year and a half after we adopted Sophia and Henry, our two kids from Haiti, we were visiting with family …
