Column: Some post-Labor Day lessons from tofu to Dolly Parton
Long before finding home in New England, I spent my earliest years in a New York City neighborhood called Parkchester. On the weekends, we would [...]
Column: From Pride to the Fourth, we must hold America to its highest ideals
June ended the way it always does, with the Pride flags coming down just as the Stars and Stripes went up. On July 4th, America [...]
Column: Rethinking ‘peace through strength’ in the afterglow of Memorial Day
Monday marked Memorial Day, with its backyard barbecues, sports and games. It was a bit wet and overcast this year for the important occasion we [...]
Column: No Kings fits squarely in a 250-year tradition of ‘sacred rebellion’
On the day after Easter, just over a week after I’d spoken at the “No Kings” rally in Newton Centre, I took up an invitation [...]
Column: Whose Bible at the border?
My heart sank when I read in the news recently about a wrongly detained blind refugee from Myanmar named Nurul Amin Shah Alam who was [...]