When you get right down to it, life is essentially about a series of choices we make over and over again, every day of our lives. Sometimes the choices are simple. Sometimes they aren't, and sometimes ...

Capturing a child’s interest in books requires the author to deliver a story that captivates the reader/listener with rich details that invigorate our sense of self and what we might be capable of and ...

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlights the best – and worst - of the U.S. health care system. Courage: Powerful Lessons in Leadership, Strength, and the Will to Succeed by John Sperzel, provides a ...

St. Anselm defined theology as "faith seeking understanding." After reading John Van Hagen's excellent book, Agnostic at the Altar, I think Van Hagen might define his fascinating theological journey ...

That’s how big your mouth must be, because you just stuck your size-seven foot into it – which is great, because now things are awkward and you never meant harm. You want to have the right ...

Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir “could easily be a catalogue of horrors, and to some degree it is”, said Hadley Freeman in The Times. But what makes it such a “compelling” read is how it reveals what happens ...

One of the most courageous people I know wasn’t a legendary explorer, activist, or soldier. She wasn’t a Hollywood stuntperson or an astronaut or a firefighter. She was my mother. In India during the ...

This collection of essays, short pieces and interviews is an exercise in exemplary courage; the courage to call out the authoritarianism of the regime and the inequities of caste that have plagued ...