Message for International Women’s Day Sheila March 8, 2011 Actually, this message is for women of the world every day, and it seems to have only gained urgency since Read More
Deconstructing the Girl Scouts Sheila March 7, 2011 The Boy Scouts seem to be doing fine, if left to their time-honored traditions and undisturbed by activist lawsuits against Read More
Wikileaks controversy caught in semantics Sheila March 2, 2011 Imagine that. Today’s announcement that the Army has leveled 22 new charges against leaker Pfc. Bradley Manning is full of Read More
Europe’s failure to understand the Mideast Sheila February 22, 2011 When you don’t remember the value of religion in your own history, you won’t appreciate the meaning of Read More
This crucial moment in Egypt Sheila February 11, 2011 The cross-section of different…and wildly different…views on the Egyptian revolution coming in from around the world boggles the Read More
The Mideast story hardly covered Sheila February 8, 2011 Behind the headlines coming out of Egypt and other countries in political and social upheaval in the Middle East, the Read More
Gifts I wish to give Sheila January 20, 2011 For my son’s birthday, I asked him if there’s something in particular he might like that he otherwise Read More
‘Prayers for peace shattered by violence’ Sheila January 2, 2011 That was the description by Al-Jazeera of the latest massacre of Christians in the Mideast, the New Year’s Day Read More
Peace 2011 Sheila December 31, 2010 ‘Can’t we all just get along?’ Pope Benedict’s message for this World Day of Peace is about the Read More
Sudan on the brink Sheila December 21, 2010 This is probably the farthest from our minds right now. Or at just about any other time of the year. Read More