Richard Rodriguez is a journalist and essayist. His most recent work, DARLING: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY, was published in 2013. The essay collection is a meditation on the Abrahamic religions after 9/11. Over the course of his career, Rodriguez has earned several prizes for his work, including a Peabody Award for essays that he presented on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
- December 14, 2017There is growing evidence that what drives partisanship in the US is not a love for one’s own party, but a hatred of the other party.
- December 13, 2017Conservatism has turned itself into a civic religion and columnist Neal Gabler fears the damages wrought in the Trump era will be permanent and lasting.
- November 27, 2017A new museum in Washington reminds us that the Good Book is subject to interpretation — and abuse.
- October 17, 2017President Donald Trump was the Values Voter Summit headliner, but Bannon stole the show.
- October 5, 2017“All men are created equal” does not mean what we think those words should mean.
- August 9, 2017
Pema Chödrön continues to teach in Buddhist monasteries in the United States and Canada. She has written several books including: THE WISDOM OF NO ESCAPE, WHEN THINGS FALL APART, and most recently, WELCOMING THE UNWELCOME. In 2006, The Pema Chodron Foundation was founded in order to help ensure that Pema’s work can be supported sustainably into the future.
- August 4, 2017An article in a Vatican-approved journal singles out Steve Bannon as "a supporter of apocalyptic geopolitics"
- July 14, 2017The Reformation did a lot more than transform Christianity.