Month: August 2013
Gitmo’s library, Detroit’s stray dogs and capturing asteroids
For the last few years, I thought the feeling among academics and environmentalists was that nuclear energy was the way to go. That it is cleaner and safer and cheaper than coal or natural gas...
Happy birthday to you… and, hopefully, not many more
I know a woman who is alive to see her great-great-great-great-great grandson. She’s 150 years old, which means she was born during the American Civil War. She had cancer in her early hundreds, but the...
5 Things Martin Luther King Teaches Me as a White Person
1. King’s Dream is inclusive White people are part of it, too. His Dream isn’t just for “the sons of former slaves”; it’s also for “the sons of former slave owners.” He foresaw a time...
The Speech that Came Before ‘I Have a Dream’
We’ve all heard Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech from the 1963 March on Washington. It’s still considered one of the greatest — if not the greatest — speech of the twentieth...
Martin Luther King’s Dream, an Object of Inception
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table...
Arranged marriage in the US, elementary ed and Chicago-born words
“My parents chose my husband” — Here’s an interesting story about life in an arranged marriage in the United States. Debie Thomas is an American and was raised evangelical, but at 22 married almost a...
How does America fit into the situation in Egypt?
This is the fourth post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for...
Egypt’s Christians: Fellow pilgrims
This is the third post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for the Muslim...
The Muslim Brotherhood: Then, now and into the future
This is the second post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for...
Egypt is Complicated: A Political Map
This is the first post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next...