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Panther Pond, Maine. I've never forgotten a post I read back in 2007 on Contemplative Scholar's blog: On Being an Animal   July 1...

I'm not much for labeling people, but I have to make a living somehow.  Source . Among my friends and relatives, the supporters of Donal...

I've been waiting eagerly for news from my friend in Hebron, a medical student whose senior-year finals were scheduled for June. Today...

Often I wake up with our two adopted kittens arranged on each side of me. But as soon as I stand up, they like to climb up my clothes u...

The Last Judgment (Rublev); Jesus' second coming, and the scroll is partly unrolled... Dormition Cathedral at Vladimir. The Last...

Bethlehem on Christmas eve, source . Judy and I are grateful to be with friends and educational colleagues in Ramallah for Christmas. Ra...

"Uncertainty," sings Isaac Slade, "is killing me." (The Fray, " Uncertainty. ") And, not for the first time,...

... where the life of a Palestinian was utterly disposable?" -- Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland . You...

Scenes from the BBC documentary Rostropovich: Genius of the Cello "Of course we know our father's voice." Re-expe...