Assaulting questions about the direction of the human race are on my mind this Ash Wednesday. Am I the only one who believes that as population has increased, so has disobedience to God, making excuses, creating rationalizations, and inventing activities to ignore God. God may seem silent but he is paying attention. Not with a stern, wait-til-you-see-what-I’m-going-to-do-to-you kind of attention. It is more a breaking heart kind of attention. More like the attention that co

I went to see “Still Alice” this week. It is the sobering story of a woman’s swift decline because of early onset Alzheimer disease. I read the book for my book club. As usual, the book tells more. One of the main differences involves what memory loss means to identity. Am I more than my memories make me? It is not an easy question to address. We all know that memory is more than the experience. It fuses perception and response to shape expectation, fears, and knowledg