We’re all familiar with the concept of “collateral damage.”  In a military operation there may be unintended destruction resulting in injury and death, even of the innocent, even in a day when laser technology allows for greater precision in the use of weapons with massive destructive potential.  In some circles, leaders expect a certain amount [...]

I enjoy the” hinge” connecting the old and new year.  For a couple weeks we commonly look back to recall the most memorable or important or funny or stupid things that happened in the year past.  Likewise, we anticipate the things we will do in the New Year—both the things we vow not to do [...]

16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.  17 Then what was said through the prophet [...]

We were in the security line waiting to submit our carryon luggage and bodies to the TSA screeners when I heard, “Yeh, you wouldn’t believe it, back of every election it’s just a struggle between various contingents of the demonic.  Actually, it’s all clear if you just know how to de-cypher the universe.  Did you [...]

Over the last week, U.S. embassies and facilities around the world have become targets for demonstrations and violence.  First in Libya and now in multiple places, outraged crowds of people protest what they understand to be profoundly offensive and blasphemous portrayals of their religion and its founding prophet.  Reportedly, an Egyptian born Coptic Christian man [...]