Broken Light

I did something I haven't done before today as I offered a welcome and a blessing on the thousands gathered for The Winter Walk to raise awareness and funds to end homelessness in Boston: I said...

That recent article on the Low Information Diet (which I probably should have called the Low Irrelevant Information Diet) stirred up quite a debate. While some readers offered their double high-fiv…

The life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer persists as an essential and critical voice even seventy five years after his death. There are so many reasons to pay attention to the occasional writings and speakings of Bonhoeffer; but in our...

When all is well, our brain is the greatest supercomputer on earth. A complex network of about 100 billion neurons, it’s not only great at…

Google whether your local police department currently outfits all on-duty police officers with a body-worn camera and requires that the…

The celebrity academic on the possibilities of nonviolence, the rise of the anti-“gender ideology” movement, and the militant potential of mourning.