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 [...]