The Occupy movement is about to turn four months old and already is planning a host of events for 2012 See Occupy Together nbsp and InterOccupy nbsp for news on the larger movement and Occupy Wall Street nbsp for NYC-related developments Occupy Together lists 1508 Occupy sites globally Some o

Forbes reports that 5 former ambassadors to the Holy See signed a statement backing the Mormon candidate for president Mitt Romney passing over Catholic candiates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum From the article Mitt Romney rsquo s Mormon background doesn rsquo t concern five former Catholic amb

Wow nbsp Tim Tebow the famously religious quarterback who kneels in prayer before during and after games led the Denver Broncos to another apparently miraculous win yesterday nbsp And as if the win itself weren rsquo t dramatic enough the football phenom passed for an astonishing 316 yards

David Brooks and Michael Gerson find in Rick Santorum a hopeful departure from the current radical Republican presidential contenders who range from neoliberal to libertarian nbsp They celebrate his embrace of subsidiarity as a more robust political philosophy than the rest of the field nbsp I s

Since leading a civil wedding ceremony a few months ago some thoughts on that experience nbsp here I ve been thinking a bit amount the many dimensions of marriage in our society from the role it plays with families to the couples allowed to participate in the institution to the weakening state o

Cambridge MA In a New York Times column entitled ldquo So Much Fun So Irrelevant rdquo on January 3 Thomas Friedman focused on the importance of the vast advances in global connectivity and the way what and how we know today is changing the quality of our lives All of this of course rather