How Do You Come to Your Opinions?
Think of a controversial issue in the news. More likely than not, you’ve already formed opinions about it. How did you come to those opinions? The question keeps arising for me this month, thanks to [...]
Last Weekend’s Gun Dialogue
Several days after our latest experiment in gun dialogue, I find myself both more hopeful and less hopeful. Fortunately, more hopeful is winning. Last week I posed a few basic ideas that, just maybe, every [...]
The Boston Bombers and Preconceived Ideas
Amid the news reports from Boston last week, a few outlying comments and impressions stood out for me. They didn’t sound like the themes that became dominant as the story unfolded: the evil of terrorism, [...]
The Next Step Past Dialogue, or, What I’m Learning by Reading the Qur’an
About a week before Terry Jones hit the news, I started to read the Qur’an. This is an imperfect venture if there ever was one. Not knowing the original Arabic, I’m relying on an English [...]