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I was just 50 years young when I encountered this steely beast. Was that a line from Steely Dan or the Eagles? In any case, what and where do we find help? I shall attempt to give you some hints on this through my experiences. I hope by writing this, you should not have to…
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Friday, July 17 – Press briefing by Tony Blinken, national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, on the vice president’s upcoming trip to Ukraine and Georgia Thursday, July 16 – Press gaggle with Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton – Vice President Biden highlights Recovery Act progress in Virginia – Statement from the president on…
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“The 3-year-old just walked right past me,” the Santa Rosa, Calif., pediatrician reported, “talking into a cell phone.” That stark image of toddler attached to machine has troubled me. “I was amused at first,” the physician continued. “Then I felt sad. She was learning how to relate to people through a machine. It was so…
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None of the crises we face today – whether it is the food crisis, the water crisis, the financial crisis or the crisis of climate change – can be managed unless greater attention is paid to population issues. World Population Day is the right time to put the issue of population back on the radar…
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– Press briefing with Robert Gibbs, Wednesday, July 1, 2009 – Pool report on Obama health-care town hall – Remarks of President Barack Obama at Health Care Town Hall in Annandale, Va., Wednesday, July 1, 2009 – Q-and-A from the health-care town hall – Vice President Biden launches broadband initiative
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– Bill signings – Robert Gibbs’ Tuesday press briefing – President talks on community solutions agenda – Town-hall meeting on health care in Virginia on Wednesday
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I’ll admit to an apprehension of medical personnel. I know I shouldn’t. They are truly remarkable couriers of caring who possess extraordinary skills to help people in their hour of need. Nevertheless, my trepidation accelerates just by sitting in the waiting room, looking around at other people there. Wondering what their problems are only heightens…
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Hunger. Child soldiers. Orphaned children raising siblings. Such tragedies might readily connote despair – but not to three African women who studied this year at Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute. When these women, attending their first SPI session, speak of the staggering tasks they and their colleagues have undertaken to heal lives and communities,…
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FDR realized that, “People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” Why do most economic policies run counter to this basic point? Faith in markets leads economists to believe that full-employment is impossible, government intervention is destructive, deficits are bad, and planning is futile. That is…
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Eastern Mennonite University is offering two new undergraduate majors, “peacebuilding and development” and “environmental sustainability,” that draw on EMU’s core values in these areas. Both programs will provide hands-on opportunities for students to be agents of change in their local communities and around the world, combining a concern for the earth and its people and…
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