“…What I want to explore today is how the kind of emptiness and openness that lies at the heart of democratic capitalism has an unfortunate tendency to lend itself to constant expansion, and therefore empire. I want to argue also that this emptiness and openness has a way of creating new forms of idolatry…

a study shows that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. That's more than a minute per email, and could easily add up to hours over a given workweek for those of you with particularly active inboxes.

This little activity helped us think of our baby as a real person who we already love and have yet to meet. By offering our wishes and blessings, we can start to imagine her here.