Tag: Poverty

  • Claudine

    Claudine

    “I have known this woman all my life,” Diahann Carroll writes in her autobiography.* “We grew up together in the same neighborhood.” Lest someone might interpret that statement as metaphorical, she continues: “much of the film was shot around 145th Street and Convent Avenue, the very same neighborhood where I was raised…Claudine and I were…

  • Mahatma Ghandi and the Christian Call to Social Justice

    Mahatma Ghandi and the Christian Call to Social Justice

    Just yesterday I told my daughter that I loved history in high school, but that I also did terrible in it. I would forget what I studied faster than I could pull out my pencil to write a test. But one thing I will never forget: learning about the Hindu caste system when in the…

  • The Martian

    The Martian

    Manned missions to Mars are coming! Can you believe that? Humans are going to explore other planets! A mission to Mars is not just science fiction anymore as NASA will most likely send people to Mars sometime in the next 40 years. For some that is exciting (me included) – for others, we can only…

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    The word “apocalypse” gets tossed around whenever a crisis breaks out. When the banks fail, people talk about a financial apocalypse. When Ebola spreads, people fear a disease-induced apocalypse. I even know a guy who’s stockpiling weapons for the zombie apocalypse. Seriously. But what would an apocalypse really look like? Probably a lot like Mad…