When my son Graham was two and a half, my aunt was the director of an exclusive preschool program run by an Episcopal church in Beverly Hills. She let us join their weekly toddler group where all of the mothers were a decade or two older than me. Most had older kids, as well—5- andContinue reading “On kids and death”
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In twenty words, the point of religion
“Religion is the means by which we come to understand how to be a finite being in an infinite world.” –Source unknown
The story of Elijah begins here
Head Butler reviews Baptism by Fire, tees up Elijah & the SAT
Another voice of Elijah
“I worry about America’s boys. They are dropping out of high school at alarming rates, and contributing to a shift in college demographics that would have been unheard of even two decades ago. The average college campus in the U.S. is now nearly 60% female. As a woman I imagine this is suppose to makeContinue reading “Another voice of Elijah”
Another voice of Elijah
“We, the culture of the self-made man, tend not to talk about vulnerability, as if it’s something that can be outsmarted. It can’t. Since the dawn of man, each and every one of us has been only one crushed vertebrae, one unrequited love, one dark alley, one mottled cell, one blown megadeal away from beingContinue reading “Another voice of Elijah”
Heather Choate Davis 