On the horizon is approaching a religious and cultural furore so contentious, any clash of civilizations may have to wait. On one side, a manuscript titled: The Final Freedoms, against all the gravitas religious tradition can bring to bear. What science and religion thought impossible has now happened. History has its first literal, testable  and fully demonstrable, proof...

I’ve been asked to ponder Joseph, the step-father of Jesus, as a figure capable of restoring qualities of fatherhood that would help us in our scrambled times. The rules of work and relationship seem to have gotten into a new juxtaposition that is destructive to us all. We are confused about who is and who is not a father, what a father is supposed to do, how we should...