In The Way Way Back, grace is granted through both mundane and mysterious circumstances - and allows people to accomplish what they could not do alone.

Toxic levels of self-aware self-reflection threaten our civilization and our souls.

My interview with former death row inmate Ndume Olatsushani shook my faith in our justice system. But I found that my own attitude represented a larger problem.

Applying the commandment to “love my neighbor” to literature, I discovered a whole new way of relating to writers.

For Simone Weil, justice is primarily an act of paying attention, which protects the sacred cry in every human being not to be hurt.