WHAT you do is only semi-important. HOW you do whatever you do is the key. Ultimately, EVERYONE is important. Sure, we need brain surgeons. But we also need garbagemen. Or more correctly, garbage persons or garbage assistants. We need physicists and plumbers, trombone players and pastry chefs, wheat farmers and grave diggers and sculptors and apple growers and, as Martin …
Church Chat
I am often asked by people on the street and by millions of online readers, “What is this infinite chasm of which you speak?” And yes, those are usually their exact words. Alas, if only there was a simple answer. There are so many infinite chasms. Overall, The Several Commandments of the Church of the Infinite Chasm all center around …
Hump Day Rewind
Want to take a break? This will take you back to a place that seems so recent – 1968 – and yet is a long way off. It seems amazing to think that so recently a person could be legally denied the right to rent an apartment or purchase a home they could afford simply because of their skin color. …
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Belatedly marking the assassination of Martin Luther King 45 years and two days ago, here’s a link to his April 16, 1963 letter to eight Alabama clergymen, responding to their suggestion that “Negroes” should obey even unjust and racially motivated laws as long as those laws are on the books. If you have never read King’s masterful response, you are …