Today, with growing polarization everywhere we look, it’s easy to believe in a caricature of the world. It’s easy to see our side as making …

It’s become a pretty constant refrain. “I believe in a God, but not in . . .” The blank is most often filled with “the …

Increasingly we’re told the Thanksgiving day is not something we should be celebrating. It was the beginning, some say, of genocide and theft of land …

Last time I talked about “magic words,” words that, when we hear them, tempt us to jump to conclusions, and after that we end or …

Superstitions are beliefs that certain words, gestures, symbols, or objects are channels of supernatural power. These can be positive, like believing a rabbit’s foot brings …