Civil Discourse
The other night I was a dinner guest in the home of Alan and Ann Simpson in Cody, Wyoming, and I found myself a little nervous in the hours leading up to dinner. I had asked my friend the Rev. Mary Caucutt, whose church, Christ Church Episcopal, had brought me to Cody for a […]
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about the end of things. One reason is that I’ve been writing about the end of the world in popular culture, but to be honest, I don’t spend much time thinking about the end of the world, although that seems to be all we did when I was […]
It didn’t take close observation to see that he didn’t belong. As toned and beautiful people edged around his table, he sat there in the dining area with his meager possessions—a cardboard box and a styrofoam cup—in the flagship store of Whole Foods Market. A few minutes earlier, I knew he had been hanging sign […]
