Just the thought of talking with others about money makes many people uncomfortable, women especially. Actually doing so can be quite awkward. At 1
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At points in her life, Diana Butler Bass has been a practicing Methodist, Evangelical fundamentalist and Episcopalian — but today she’s a Christian who is always
It was a long journey for David Simon to adapt Show Me a Hero to the screen. Lisa Belkin, a former writer for The
Decades ago, the Rev. Gerald Durley stood at the front of a grade school classroom and stuttered. It wasn’t his class, yet. The teacher
It was last Wednesday that Geoffrey Kemp, director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Center for the National Interest, shared his insights on the
Thaddeus Skiles is nervous. He starts to speak hurriedly and stirs restlessly on an undersized ladderback chair. A packed room at the United Church of
Phrakhru Pitak Nanthakhun begged his father to keep the baby monkey clinging to its dead mother. Phrakhru’s father, a hunter in northern Thailand, had shot
Nearly 30,000 elephants are slaughtered every year. Elephants die to make cutlery handles, religious sculptures, piano keys, billiard balls and more — all out of
For a journalist, winning a Pulitzer is comparable to an actor winning an Oscar. Being honored with more than one is exceptional. But as a
“I have been asking myself again and again these days, what does it mean to belong to the human family, to be brother, sister, father,
Freedom is in danger. Modern freedom was a moral accomplishment created through sacrifice and adherence to strong values, Imam Abdulaziz Eddebbarh said, but it may
David Doubilet got his first look at the world beneath the water at 8 years old. He spent that summer at a camp in the
As many as a 10th of the world’s 7 billion people suffer from chronic hunger and malnutrition, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of
In 2011, the Rev. Gerald L. Durley was inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame to commemorate his contributions to the civil rights
You meet the elephant. You spend time in the story with the elephant. The elephant would be killed. You would be sad. For years, that
Pictures, David Doubilet said, have power. “They have the power to illuminate, they have the power to humiliate, they have the power to celebrate,