The Givers
It’s been five years since the release of Baz Luhrmann’s interpretation of The Great Gatsby, the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Here’s what I remember about the film. I remember the CGI, the...
View ArticleTwisted Words
“Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. You love evil more than good,...
View ArticlePaying Attention
“We who see others in the grip of malheur [“affliction”] are obliged, first and foremost, to pay attention – to pay the same absolute attention that God deserves . . . Love of God and love of neighbor...
View ArticleAn Antidote to Fear
In recent years, refugees from Muslim-majority countries have risen on the list of threats we are instructed to fear. We have seen the videos of ISIS beheadings; we have seen what havoc car bombs wreak...
View ArticleCall For Justice
It’s been repeated so many times it’s become a cliché: “Give someone a fish and they’ll eat for a day. Teach them to fish and they’ll eat for a lifetime.” Yet as a humanitarian proverb illustrating the...
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