Last summer New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about a book he picked up in a New Hampshire bookstore The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman The elderly woman describes what she calls living in a different dimension where her sons no longer seek her advice but rather carefully shield her

I just got around to reading Jeffrey Sachs 2007 BBC Reith Lectures entitled Bursting at the Seams Many may have read if not do so Sachs stirring and important 2005 book The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time Sachs an economist has been the principal adviser to the

The achievements of the pontificate of John Paul II were possible precisely because he inherited a living church, not one frozen in time.