by Sara Archambault | Jun 25, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Summertime is upon us! While most New Englanders head to the Cape, the North Shore or other beach destinations, we cinephiles take our summer escapes via the indoor adventures offered up on the silver screen during the annual summer film festival season. As Program...
by Hayley Wood | Jun 28, 2012 | The Public Humanist
There’s a passage in C.S. Lewis’s book about his late conversion to Christianity, Surprised by Joy, in which he describes an aesthetic experience from his childhood that exemplifies the core of his spiritual longings. He recalls looking at Beatrix...
by Jack Cheng | Jul 3, 2012 | The Public Humanist
The death of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, as well as Hayley Wood’s perceptive essay on illustrations in children’s books, reminded me of a visit to the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge. My son was about 3 at the time and it was one of those...
by John Hill | Jul 10, 2012 | The Public Humanist
Many Americans, including this author, were ecstatic that Barack Obama won the 2008 Presidential election. As the 2012 election campaign moves into high gear, it is time to evaluate his time in office. If we were choosing a national prophet, Obama would be in trouble....
by Bob Meagher | Jul 24, 2012 | The Public Humanist
I, for one, am neither impressed nor reassured by President Obama’s personal study of and commitment to the writings of Augustine and Aquinas on just war to guide his own conscience and conduct of drone warfare and targeted assassinations. In a few words here, I...
