The Archive
Day: July 15, 2007
She’s ba-ack
God has returned to Europe. So reports The Wall Street Journal. The question is, why? The WSJ offers up the supply-side theory, and the facts appear to fit.
Working mothers want part-time
The Pew Research Center has released a new study that shows a marked increase in the desire for part-time work versus full-time work in recent years. The preference for full time work has dropped for both stay-at-home moms and working moms. Fathers, on the the other hand, still prefer full-time work.
Psychologists review stance on gays
The American Psychological Association is doing a review of its policy on counseling GLBT persons, and the result may be to stop counseling that aims to “convert” sexuality to heterosexuality. Several conservative groups are not happy.
Commonplace mysteries
It is a quotidian mystery that dailiness can lead to despair and yet also be at the core of our salvation. We express this every time we utter the Lord’s Prayer. As Simone Weil so eloquently stated it in her essay, “Concerning the Our Father,” the “bread of this world” is all that nourishes and energizes us, not only food but the love of friends and family, “money, ambition, consideration…power…everything that puts into us the capacity for action.”