Wise Up

I just came from a confirmation camp at Johnsonburg Camp and Retreat Center. Part of the focus for this group of confirmands was on interfaith dialogue and how we live our Christian life in harmony with people of other faiths. We were blessed with the presence of Daisy Khan, the director of Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, who shared her own faith journey with us and answered a ...

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The Attack (and subsequent panic) That Never Was

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the infamous radio broadcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds--a story of aliens invading the earth. The telling of the story was so real that mass panic ensued as people feared it was an actual news broadcast telling people that aliens were indeed running amuck on earth. Stories abound of people running through the streets, men calling the police to volunteer to fight ...

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