Each of us is descended from parents. Without exception, a man and a woman were involved in your inception and birth, and generally in your childhood, teen years and early adulthood as well. How are we to respond to these people, how should we adjust to our own increasing powers of understanding, physical strength and financial ability in the light of the gratitude and respect we owe our parents for the care we received at an earlier age?  Read more...

Our culture is materially opulent and spiritually starved.  Throughout American communities, lavish homes and well-furnished schools provide our children and ourselves with abundant physical comforts.  We have all the possessions we can imagine.   Our richness in things is counter-balanced, however, by our poverty in time.  Read more...