Shock, sorrow, surprise. Shock, sorrow, surprise. Shock, sorrow, surprise.

Since the Newtown murders on Friday, Dec. 15, this trinity of responses has reverberated in the media and public and private exchanges among observers to the slaughter.

Only the deadened heart cannot feel shock and sorrow. But...

Review of Robert L. Klitzman, M.D. Am I My Genes? Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 365

I was a child dark of hair, eyes and skin. My sister M. was as fair and blue-eyed as...

The most searching way to discover, recover, or practice one's faith is to be a member of a religious minority--to live on a small island of Otherness in an archipelago of bigger religions or in the lake of a theocracy. The situation can be agreeable or dangerous. This is a...