How to Teach Your Children About Death, Part 2
The theme of death this autumn, the season of dying, has brought home the realization that we are alive for now.
The theme of death this autumn, the season of dying, has brought home the realization that we are alive for now.
Tom Morris | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
There is something important to be learned from Jeff Dunham's improbable rise. Passion and belief are often able to create a path forward where none may exist.
Bob Cesca | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It's been exactly one year since Barack Obama was elected, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the president hasn't fixed the whole world yet. Then again, he never promised such a thing.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
Have you ever wondered why your achievements in life reached a plateau when they did - how you were on the path of your dream before something got in the way and stopped the surge?
Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Hope was intrinsically too big a promise to run on. Hope unleashes dreams of the beautiful, while politics by its nature can only deliver the truly ugly and barely functioning compromise.
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Loss and change cannot be prevented in life. It would be nice, but the reality is that the future is uncertain and anything can happen. The key is to stay out of fear by controlling your physiology.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green
When I look at my kids, I pray that they will have a world to grow into that is habitable and sustainable. The generation of "whatever" is doing great harm to the future of our existence.
Hamdan Azhar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
If the Nobel Peace Prize Committee tells us that war is compatible with peace, who are we to say otherwise?
Jon Foreman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact
I would like to suggest that the best parts of our human nature can be seen in sacrifice or surrender. A mother sacrificing her time for her child, a teacher devoting her afternoons to help students off-the-clock. These are truly our most incredible moments as a species: moments of unmerited kindness.
Lester Sloan | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
While writers, poets, and scientists usually win the award for what they have accomplished, statesmen, philosophers, and other persons of ideas are honored for the causes that they champion.
Russell Simmons | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
I'm really afraid that our beloved country, America, is standing on its last wobbly legs. I'm worried that the karmic effects of our negative actions will finally come home to roost.
Thomas Frank | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
Chris Campbell | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
When I saw the "Baucus Bill" today, I finally couldn't take it anymore. I could no longer fight for a party that I barely even recognized.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York
On election night, Thompson stirringly repeated the refrain, "Eight is enough!", "Eight is enough!" We have a chance to win our city back.
Anne Naylor | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
Have you ever been around a child who, with single-mindedness of purpose, has got just what they wanted - like a puppy, a new pair of shoes, a treat o...
Billy Parish | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
Until we change our lifestyle, the Earth will remain in the danger zone. There is still time to bring carbon dioxide levels back down, but it's going to take a major transformation in how we think and act.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
In his speech last evening, Obama made the commitments that a broad coalition in the faith community had asked for -- reform as a moral issue, affordable coverage for all, and no federal funding of abortion.
Rhoades Alderson | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
The president's most recent August swoon reminds us that this moment is the first real test of Obama's "hope" in the nitty-gritty of getting big things done in Washington.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
These are troubling times for those who supported Barack Obama for President.
James M. Lynch | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
The agenda was: here's a blank page, please fill it in, pass it on and return it to me. It's simple, straightforward, open and effective.
Karen Luniw | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
Whether it's a reformed health care system, a new job, a new place to live or to solve a business problem -- in order to get something new, we have to change.
Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
Whether you see the glass as half full or half empty, the amount of water stays the same. It never changes. The only thing that changes? Your perspective.
Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living
Various studies show that an optimistic mindset will lift your mood and might add years to your life. But how do you look on the bright side when life is really bleak?
Bil Browning | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The LGBT community is used to being downtrodden and dismissed. Prejudice, animosity, and apartheid flew out of Pandora's Box long ago.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living