We bet you forgot John Oliver was even on "Community." Absent since early in the season, Oliver returned and spiced things up in last night's season f...
Look at the American political landscape today and you might begin to get the sinking feeling that the red state/blue state dichotomy is, on the one h...
I had the great fortune of visiting Glide Foundation and the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church recently. Microsoft has provided a significant software donation to help them upgrade their technology.
The aptly-named Crown Square redevelopment is the central jewel in the remarkable comeback of its once-downtrodden city neighbor...
This pro-social behavior results from a change in social norms that allowed us to trust strangers, a new study suggests. That change is likely linked ...
Today’s title comes from Jeff Holm, chair of the Board of Supervisors for Baldwin Township, Minnesota. Baldwin is a rural community s...
A video from Inveneo, one of the organizations involved in the Haiti ReWired blog. Evan Hanson from Haiti ReWired said something that really stood ...
If our political leaders won't make room for the "strangers" among us, we, the people of faith, will. It's time to stop playing politics with people's lives.
This week I'm participating in an extraordinary event with 141 other diabetes bloggers. Each of us is writing about the same topic of how we live with diabetes on the same day. Type 1s, type 2s and parents who have a child with diabetes.
Millets. It used to be a word I'd cram from my geography textbook in grade Nine. Millets were described as coarse grains grown in parts of India where...
For these down-on-their-luck Jewish communities, it was a divine tale of "Yes, we can," writ large. And I found myself being inspired by their against-all-odds road to redemption.
We all know that trust in business has fallen steadily in recent times. Scandals and economic crises have raised questions about the role that corpor...
If you live the vast majority of your time in a "me-centered" universe, then you are going to get more than your share of depression, angst, sorrow and all of the things that make life terrible.
Although there are many things that people have taken the time to chart geographically, one thing you won't find is a comprehensive map of play areas in your community. It's time to change that.
Why is it that in an age of discount airlines, unlimited cell phone minutes, and the Internet, when we can create community anywhere, we often don't know the people who live next door?
We were the same family as we were when the day began, except for one important difference. Thanks to D.C.'s City Council and Maryland's state attorney general, when we returned home from our marriage, we had equal rights.
If some of our communities are left behind as others move forward, we cannot claim victory for all Asian Americans.
The fact that President Obama asked us to make "tough decisions about offshore oil and gas" in his State of the Union should give us great pause.
As the invisible structures which produce mass reality are beginning to shift, artists like Mark Bradford and Rick Lowe provide important reminders that "seeing is not understanding."
Everyday, people are faced with suffering and loss of loved ones who are torn away from them. And, somehow they survive, often with lots of tears and lots of pain.
Purim is a four-part exercise is having a great time, reconnecting with friends, celebrating the past and helping to make a better future. If that isn't a great holiday, I don't know what is.
More than 30 million Americans suffer from rare diseases. Wear your favorite jeans to show your support on this Sunday's Global Rare Disease Day.
At a time of a religious revival, a youth bulge and an increase in interaction between people from different backgrounds, religion can be a bomb, a bubble, a barrier or a bridge.
Might it be that our thirst for faster and more ubiquitous communication (snail mail, telegraph, telephone, email, text message, Facebook) strains toward some kind of mystical union?
Life is grim on most Main Streets, but some Main Streets are far worse than others. Take Martin Luther King Boulevard in Austin or Martin Luther King Street in Jackson, MS.
