Enter In Service

Alan Lurie, 07.05.2009

Author of Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work

This is a commencement address that I recently delivered to a graduating class of Rabbis. I hope that its call to service resonates for you.

Mark Sanford and the Argentine Therapy Angle

Mary Battiata, 07.05.2009

In all the cherchez- la-femme commentary about the governor's behavior and motives, there's one angle that's been overlooked.

How to Start a Dream Group

Anne Hill, 07.04.2009

Dream consultant, public speaker, author, and Dream Talk Radio host.

Some friends and I started a dream group on a lark one summer. 16 years later, we are still meeting every week to discuss our dreams.

Health Care Rationing? The US Has Been Rationing Care for Years

Sarah Lovinger, 07.03.2009

Physician and Executive Director, Chicago chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility

I am not sure in which alternate reality these Conservative nay-sayers live, but as a primary care doctor working with uninsured patients, I can assure you that health care has been rationed in the US for years.

TIME's Misleading Cover Story on Marriage

Bella DePaulo, 07.04.2009

Author of SINGLED OUT and the "Living Single" blog

Sometimes children from single-parent homes do just as well, or better, than children from two-parent families. Sometimes they do worse, but not "drastically" so, as Flanagan misleadingly suggests.

What if MJ Fans Left a Legacy Rather Than Flowers

Matt Petersen, 07.02.2009

What if instead of spending $20 on flowers to leave behind on tribute sites, or tying $10 Mylar balloons to fences, Jackson's fans instead honored his humanitarian streak by making a donation to charity?

What Is This Thing Called Forgiveness?

Alison Rose Levy, 07.03.2009

Were the constraints of being in a suffocatingly correct marriage so painful that poor Governor Sanford had to process his feelings with the only safe people he knew -- reporters and the press?

14 Addiction Triggers: Why, When and How it Starts Part 2

Carole Bennett, 07.03.2009

Strong family structure guided in responsible, honest and/or religious values are no guarantee to thwart the constant barrage and temptation of a neighborhood with abundantly available drugs.

How Abraham Lincoln's "Hot Letters" Can Keep You From Going All Alice Hoffman

David Quigg, 07.02.2009

Ex-Reporter, Avid Photographer, and Author of a Shovel-Ready Unpublished Novel

We all have our limits. Abraham Lincoln's limit is that he left behind no wise counsel for the man who finds himself garmentless at 30,000 fee. But he did leave something for the Twitterers.

Outing the Toxics in Our High Chairs

Joan Blades, 07.03.2009

Co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org

It is unconscionable to expose babies to these chemicals -- especially since the 12-second flame resistance provided by these toxic chemicals has shown no measurable benefit in terms of fire protection.

Why Men Relate to Governor Sanford

Mike Alvear, 07.03.2009

Host of HBO's The Sex Inspectors

Trying to make a man monogamous is like trying to make an artist into a mathematician. You can lock him into a room full of numbers for eternity, but let him out and the first thing he'll do is draw.

Michael Jackson and 4th of July Priorities of Concern

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater, 07.03.2009

In the same week that hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a travesty of democratic values, Americans took to the streets for the death of a superstar entertainer.