Watching television this morning, and a person has written a book. The book is about what we value in life. The author was of no ideology or religion. He was exploring in his own way what was essential to his life. As he had no religious training and followed no one path, I was very interested ...

There's been quite a bit of discussion about prayer and its results. The horrible shooting in Minneapolis has brought on a discussion of the real power of prayer. Is prayer a comforting lip service used to quiet and calm a situation? Is prayer merely a social band-aid for a challenging ...

I spent many years in education. Schools, along with several other institutions, hospitals, and law enforcement, are all really extensions of the family. When we send our children to school, they reap multiple benefits, including socialization, the opportunity to receive instruction, and the ...

Kyra O’Guinn and her young family have relied heavily on Focus: HOPE’s Early Head Start programming to help raise their daughter since she was just 4 months old. But that safety net was eliminated when the longtime Detroit nonprofit announced that it has not received federal Head Start ...

We are currently enjoying the heat, or perhaps not. Our end-of-summer heat wave, if you can call it that. The trees are in their fullness, lush with green, and the water in the lake sports its Prussian blue coolness with a distinct horizon marked by powder-soft blue skies. Soon the leaves will ...

Students at elite universities tend to talk a good game when it comes to religious pluralism. Many of them show up on day one already saying all the right things about respecting different faiths. But here’s the paradox: They don’t grow from there, according to our research published in ...