As President Obama homes in on the Afghanistan decision, here are some articles you might want to read. I hope he has read them: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston   ...

Here you may listen to an interview with Rowan Williams that was broadcast on Vatican Radio.  I’ve been looking for a copy of Cardinal Kasper’s speech at the symposium at which both men spoke.  I have only the report made by CNA. I hope Kasper’s...

One of the major tasks of professional education of all sorts is to help students see that their education is no longer “all about them.”  It never was, of course–but professional school education has a more immediate -connection to the well-being of...

The debate continues over whether the news media downplayed suggestions that  Maj. Nidal  Hasan, the Fort Hood gunman, is an Islamist terrorist.  Critics such as  columnists David Brooks and Charles Krauthammer had said there was too much focus on...

Although most of us who teach are growing inexorably closer to the mountain of FALL exams we have to grade, we’re also thinking about our SPRING courses. I’m teaching “Faith, Law, and Morality” this spring–which is about, well, faith, law and morality....