I finagled an invitation from Governor Jerry Brown we had known one another in high school and for the brief time he was a Jesuit seminarian to attend his by invitation only conference on extreme climate risks and California s future held Dec 15th at the Academy of Science San Francisco The

Cambridge MA The semester is finally ending and in a few days my grades will be submitted and ldquo Introduction to Hindu Ritual Theory rdquo safely behind me I hope now to add a few blogs this coming week in light of the quickly arriving of Christmas - a few somewhat random insights adn re

What happens in the afterlife to an atheist nbsp Well the answer to most nbsp questions about the afterlife needs to be ldquo We don rsquo t know rdquo nbsp While Jesus spoke about the Final Judgment and offered some striking images of heaven and hell in the final analysis no human being

According to The Washington Post and The New York Times the Iraq War has ended mdash again But we still have not come to terms with what it has nbsp really meant Those with long memories remember that the first George Bush Gulf War ended as we slaughtered the helpless remnants of the Iraqi army f

In his new novel Lost Memory of Skin Russell Banks wants to disturb us and with a disturbing subject sex offenders No attempt is made to exculpate these men but Russell does want his readers to do what many in society today refuse to do He wants us to see these offenders as men mdash faile

There are a number of reasons why we the editors of America got into the business of writing And as you can see from our new promotional video below there are also some good reasons why we did not choose careers in broadcasting A blessed Advent to all Please consider giving the gift o