Energy is an issue with strong ethical and spiritual dimensions, though those dimensions have been fairly invisible so far. Shedding light on the topic was what the United Nations Foundation and the World Faiths Development Dialogue set out to do during a recent workshop.

We all know that health care is a complex issue with no easy answer. But I'm concerned that Christians are not asking the right question. The people who stand to benefit from the ACA have been forgotten, ignored and overlooked.

In a world that is changing so rapidly, religion provides comfort, continuity and timeless certainty to millions of the faithful in the world. But often that religious package also includes heavy doses of triumphalism, chauvinism and intolerance.

We ought to be slow to believe the worst about others, quick to report the best. Now, that would be a true memorial to those who died in the Holocaust!