What I’m saying is that even if you are now cooped up in the house with small, rambunctious children who behave like monkeys, things could be worse.
Debra RienstraMarch 21, 2020
We must increase our capacity for and interest in virtues and their formation, especially in this time of climate crisis, not succumb to a belief that “Oh well, there is little interest in being just or courageous, so I guess this business of virtue ethics…
Debra RienstraFebruary 22, 2020
t’s time once again to welcome guest blogger and advice columnist Pious Petunia, offering timely wisdom and incisively soothing commentary on modern romance.
Debra RienstraFebruary 8, 2020
The guiding question for my reading is this: how will our spirituality (and our churches) need to change in order to survive the unprecedented challenges ahead, particularly the climate crisis? Here’s what I’m learning so far.
Debra RienstraJanuary 25, 2020
Macfarlane’s journeys, remarkable as much for the philosophical and emotional strain as for the physical rigors they demanded, uncover what underlands mean to us: in these hidden worlds, we shelter what we treasure, dispose of what we fear, and coax the earth to yield what…
Debra RienstraJanuary 11, 2020
You may be surprised to learn that I am of royal blood. I’m serious. Through my father’s side, I can now trace an ancestral line back to Edward I, king of England.
Debra RienstraDecember 28, 2019
Lately I’ve been feeling a lot of emptiness. Deus absconditus. This darkness is evidently nothing new, seeing as there’s a Latin name for it. Where are you?
Debra RienstraDecember 14, 2019
We've aired 12 episodes over the last few months, so it's time to figure out what we've learned. I guess we could call this a final exam day.
Debra RienstraDecember 6, 2019
The thing that I learned from my time working at the Justice Department is that good policy and making good policy takes time. It takes thoughtfulness. It takes deliberation. It's not crafted in late-night tweets.
Debra RienstraNovember 29, 2019
