At Home and On the Road

The timeless liberation story of Exodus opens with an odious ruler ruthlessly determined to eradicate the refugee community that his predece...

In this season, I look back on my ten favorite records of the past year.  Please note I am not claiming these are the best albums of 2025.  ...

I am old enough to have lived through some contentious times.  In my boyhood, growing up ten minutes outside Washington, DC, I witnessed maj...

In 1999, an old controversy was rekindled when a team of mountaineers found the body of George Mallory buried beneath a slope of frozen scre...

Rosh Hashanah holds within its name a paradox, for the word shanah —or “year”—comes from a Hebrew root that points to two seemingly opposite...

While 2024 was, in many ways, an austere year filled with war and ugly politics, it gave us some great music.  My twelve favorite albums—one...

For a link to a 13 minute video of my coast-to-coast walk across England on the Hadrian's Wall path last month, see: https://vimeo.com/1...