Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in ...
A while back, 2006 to be exact or close to it, I was up on our roof prepping our outdoor lights for the coming celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth. It was a beautiful day; the sun was ...
On Wednesday, the square in Springfield was lit up for the first-ever Hanukkah on the Square event. It was a celebration filled with meaning and reflection.