A ‘defiant requiem’ seems a contradiction. But not when a chorus of 100 Jews interned at Terezin in 1944 sang Giuseppi Verdi’s ‘Messa da Requiem’ to their Nazi captors and…
What happens when an essential part of the social safety net frays or disappears? A conversation with my son, Jotham, a lawyer who’s handling some Workers’ Compensation cases, got me…
One word can have such distinct meanings that I never connect them. Consider the words ‘conversion’ and ‘redemption’, important in the vocabularies of Christians and the bond market. And then…
On a filthy March afternoon, a group gathered at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge to look at the Cemetery’s restoration of monuments to Civil War dead. …
When the Church declares a person – always dead – to be a saint, s/he’s canonised. The books of the Bible the Church long ago established as scripture…
Today with great reverence I wish to thank Dr. Jonas Salk and those who preceded and followed him in the struggle to control polio. For as The Writer’s…