Merry conflictual Christmas
Despite all that sometimes-forced mirth, the history of America's holiday season has been a battle for centuries.
Judy Lightfoot
Judy Lightfoot writes about how the region's people confront a variety of challenges. She often draws on her weekly one-on-one coffees with individuals sharing our public spaces who are socially isola
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Equity
Best of 2009: Saying Yes
The author plays the Doubting and Believing games as she ponders an oddball kind of volunteering.
Culture
A sense of sin: a gift at Christmas?
"Comparative virtue" can get in the way of holiday generosity, or even true self-reflection. The answer to "which one of you did it?" may be staring you right in the face.
Culture
Czech buses: The key to Kafka?
A Karlovy Vary "mugging" turns out to be not so bad. But then this journey was for "Good Tourists Only."
Street kids redeemed, one coffee at a time
At New Horizon Ministries and Street Bean Espresso, the mission is seeing kids as persons to be loved, not problems to be solved.