Category: Pastors’ Letters

The author Toni Morrison recently gave a commencement address to the students at Rutgers University, in which she made the following comment: “I have often wished that Jefferson had not …

The English language is a language of verbs. Other languages are full of nouns. Think of German, with its long, compound words to describe persons, places, and things. By contrast, …

In today’s skeptical society, the phrase “Nullius in verba” (loosely translated as “take no one’s word for anything”) seems like the active slogan of our age. We hear one television …

African-American preacher, theologian and mystic Howard Thurman (1900-1981) wrote a wonderful poem called “The Threads in My Hand.” It begins this way: “Only one end of the threads, I hold …

On the list of best non-fiction books for 2010 is a book by Isabel Wilkerson called The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. It is …

On the list of best non-fiction books for 2010 is a book by Isabel Wilkerson called The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. It is …

With the start of a new year comes a wonderful opportunity. The month of January means that a new period in each of our lives has begun. It is true …

One of the most famous lines in E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End is the phrase “only connect.” It is both a diagnosis of a problem and a prescription for a …

Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Physicists know this to be true, as do parents, where there is …

What is happiness? I am struck by how seldom we talk about happiness anymore. The media always has a lot to say about national moods of anger and anxiety, and …