One of the luxuries of winter break is having time to go to museums. Yesterday, I saw an exhibit of masterpieces borrowed from the Louvre. The two works that st...
If you live in the Boston area and you have a strong constitution, you ought to see Sleep No More, the American Repertory Theater’s adaptation of Macbeth. The s...
Joseph Haydn was not a genius, Professor Robert Levin told our class. He was not born with the automatic brilliance of a Mozart or a Beethoven. He did not have ...
Adultery is a great evil. This is an inescapable conclusion. And it is not a new conclusion to me—every reading of the Ten Commandments, every discussion of mar...
I recently discovered a wonderful blog, written by Stanley Fish for the New York Times. The first article that I read, “Why Do Writers Write?”, was an intriguin...
This past week I had the opportunity to visit the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, China, which is a Buddhist monastery. My time there was rich in thought-prov...
It seems as though just about every book of the Bible is at the center of raging controversy. What genre is the first part of Genesis? What are Christians to ...
