Reverence in the Face of Real Life You, whoever you are, live your life in partnership with a power beyond us all from which you cannot extricate yourself. You cannot…

The character of politicians remains a “no-fly zone” in the election processes of the United States and other developed democracies of the world. Even though early American leaders like James…

The shake-up in citizen’s minds over the public ineptitude in last week’s presidential debate brings out a major flaw in our American election processes: We almost totally ignore character as…

As my granddaughter ages (she is six years old), I can observe the growth of the virtue of acceptance in her little heart. “Mine”, once her favorite, pervasive word, diminishes as she…

When one presidential candidate is shot at and another is contending against many members of his party to retain his re-election bid, who thinks about kindness? When wars around the…

The realization that deceiving others for any self-serving purpose eventually erodes public trust and destroys not only interpersonal relations but the community itself, began in writing around 1750 BC with…

Last week something remarkable happened politically in the already hyper-drama of U.S. government. As we prepare ourselves for better assessing character in this Substack, one person and an extraordinary situation…

A Medieval philosopher once wrote that Kings and virtue do not mix. Either man who is virtuous before he becomes king will be corrupted by the power, or a corrupt…

Years ago, I heard a State Hospital psychiatrist quip during a lecture that: “Humor is about 95% hostility, and the rest is something else, but I don’t know what.” I…

When I first met my wife one morning in a hospital stairway, I managed to have lunch with her and a few other nurses at noon in the cafeteria. In...