i just finished my annual panchakarma cleanse. Panchakarma means 'five cleansing actions.'  it's a rejuvenating and healing process from the ayurvedic tradition of Inida, involving diet, herbs, purgatives, sweating, lymphatic-style massage, sinus cleansing, and more, ad...

i've been writing so much about my mother and her family and very little about my father.  well, until recently, i thought i knew all there was to know about my father's family.  but now there's been yet another major familial wake-up call.  my father's family were 'danish jews.' ...

This weekend I attended a conference on political justice and the church.  I was a bit surprised by three aspects of it. An Antiquarian Justice Paradigm The first aspect was how the justice paradigm in the church has really not changed much in forty years. While appeals to moving away from the ...