Renee Garfinkel — Beyond Belief
Renee Garfinkel
Faith, family, spiritual, traditional values
America has always been a spiritually creative country. From the insights of the Founding Fathers to the various historical periods of "great awakenings," America has been a startup nation for repackaging the spiritual impulse.
Texas church massacre against Christians
We have barely begun to mourn our freshly dead, the latest American victims of rage and hate and guns, massacred at a worship service in their Texas church.
Grave robbing: It’s not just for Halloween anymore
It is time to stop the practice of treating human remains as product for profit.
Las Vegas shooting, criminal minds
A nation bewildered and stunned by the carnage in Las Vegas searches for answers and hints of explanations but so far has found none.
Aging Americans can’t afford retirement
Having failed dismally to replace Obamacare with an improved plan, Congress and the tweet-addled, highly distractible media have moved on to other issues, shiny and new. They seem happy to disregard health care in general, and the aging population in particular, as these two related and complex issues require time, effort and thought.
Hurricanes, natural disasters, survivalists
"I feel like we're facing a major catastrophe," said my anxious neighbor, "like we're all pretending that everything's OK, since we can't do anything to prevent it, anyway."
Equifax: Corporate criminals should be locked up
Imagine a neighbor who quietly lifted your house key, made a copy and returned the original, all behind your back. Now imagine that he labeled your key with your home address and left it in an open box on the street corner. Is that neighbor not culpable when your home is robbed, as it inevitably will be?
Iran Hezbollah North Korea nuclear weapons
We are soaked to the skin. First came Harvey, then came Irma, and now Jose is on its way.
Southern Poverty Law Center enemies list targets Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- black woman, feminist, Somali-born former Muslim, now atheist -- is on the hit list produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center, called A Field Guide To Anti-Muslim Extremists. Why?
Harvey: Houston storm damage, accountability
Why is Houston so vulnerable to epic floods? Because, as the old song said, "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." (Thank you Joni Mitchell.)
Terrorist lessons from Barcelona
It's been a great week for terrorists. The week that began Aug. 12 with the deadly car-ramming in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved on to see more violence in Europe; from the north, in Finland, to the south, in Spain.
White supremacy a symptom of Americans’ despair
There is a deep well of suffering in America.
Male sperm count drops dramatically in the West
This alarming finding was announced last week by an international research team: Sperm counts among men in western countries have more than halved in the last 40 years.
Climate change is religious imperative
Al Gore's prominence in the climate change discussion has led some in the media to assume that it's strictly a liberal and secular issue. They are wrong.
Religion in Trump’s America
What is the Trump administration's relationship with organized religion? The White House sends mixed signals. On the one hand, photos of last week's prayer circle in which Evangelical leaders laid hands on the President to invoke God's blessing, showed a president very much at home with religion.
Civil wars, proxy wars pave path toward Armageddon
On Friday, three gunmen shot and killed two police officers at the most volatile spot on Earth, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Health care infected by greed
There's an infection in our health care system and its name is greed.
Independence Day leadership
Happy Independence Day - a holiday we owe to the visionary signers of the Declaration of Independence back in 1776. From the youngest to the oldest - Edward Rutledge was only 26 years old at the time and Ben Franklin was 70 - the signers were people who took the long view. They thought in terms of the distant future; in terms of years and generations, not news cycles. Because of their long view, their leadership was transformative.
America anxiety disorder
The true voice of America - the spirit of the age - speaks from its lowest register; the bottom, where anxiety dwells.
Britain anti-semitism terror attacks
Britain has lost its way, lost its moral compass...and lost its mind. In the midst of a season of repeated and deadly terror attacks, the British decided to permit Hezbollah, Iran's proxy and international terrorist organization, to march in a parade through London on Sunday.
