We’ve considered this week the virtue of silence – of spending time in silence and of exercising the right we have to be silent. But perhaps the question arises in your mind, “what, then, am I supposed to do in...

It’s one thing to spend time in silence—it is quite another to be silent ourselves.   Do you ever find it interesting that when the police arrest somebody on suspicion of a crime, they don’t tell them they have the...

When was the last time you spent more than a few seconds…in genuine silence?  No music, no television, no iPhone alerts…or scrolling; no honking car horns or ambulance sirens; not even the conversation of a friend or the sound of...

The thing about an epitaph is that it is ultimately a kind of judgment—a short summation of the life of a person.  And whether we have a headstone or not, we’ll all have an epitaph written for us one way or...

Thinking about our epitaph can help us not to live life by accident.  But there’s also a danger in endeavoring to write it ourselves—i.e., the presumption that we decide how we will be remembered. Thomas Jefferson is a case in point.  He...