May your spirit find its way, whichever way that might be
My advisor and friend David Ede, Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, passed away a week ago today. He was 73 years old and died as the result of an allergic reaction to nuts, something that he had known about [...]

I am not going to write about what is going on in Gaza right now, except to say that I believe it to be unjust. It would be considered unjust by the world community if it were happening anywhere else, to anyone else.
Rather, here are some of the thoughts of the people whose commentary [...]

It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks about anything anymore.

Though Benazir Bhutto came under a great deal of scrutiny during and after her two stints as Prime Minister of Pakistan, for corruption and for not fulfilling campaign promises, the fact still remains that she was the first woman to serve as Prime Minister in a Muslim [...]

This is a piece that I wrote for submission to the “Readers Write” section in The Sun magazine.
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I would say that my grandmother battled cancer for nearly two years before it finally killed her, but that sentiment would be too strong. From the time of her initial diagnosis, she was never the same. Her [...]

Earlier today, I felt it inappropriate to write about Jerry Falwell’s death because of the nature of the feelings and thoughts that I have on his life and career. Then, I started to hear more and more folks on the radio (NPR) talking about his life an career, lauding him for being a great, [...]