Mahatma Gandhi: Love other religions as your own
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “So precious is a person’s faith in God that we should not harm that. Because God gave birth to all religions.” —St. Francis of Assis “I’ve broadened my Hinduism...
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The day Confucius went to the United Nations
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and that they have “the right to life, liberty...
Sexually transmitted diseases at all-time high
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The Centers for Disease Control has just released preliminary data on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and they show a dramatic increase in infections over four years. In 2017, there...
The negative effects of income inequality on mental health
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The world’s richest large country, the city on a hill, seems to be coming apart. —The Economist(6/14/18) In 2011 British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett released the second...
An update on unions in higher education
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist The advance of higher education unions has generally stalled at about 375,000 faculty—21 percent of private schools and 35 percent of public colleges and universities. This significant movement has...
Lost in a world of red and green
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist As I read about the fires raging across the western states, I’m reminded of my three years on “hot shot” crews in the late 1960s. One June day on...
Iran vs. North Korea: Obama Got a Better Deal
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist There is unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive us. —current U.S. intelligence official on North Korea Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile pledges are about as disposable as toilet...
Judge rules family separations “brutal and offensive”
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Attorney General Jeff Sessions has quoted the Bible in support of his No Tolerance and Family Separation policies, but this passage undermines his case entirely: “When a stranger sojourns...
The Dissolution of the Iberian Religious Harmony
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist I’m just back from a one-month trip to Portugal, Spain and Morocco, and I was reminded, primarily because of the spectacular Islamic architecture, about the relative peace among the...
Morocco makes progress — politically, culturally and economically
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Known as the “Door to the Sahara Desert,” Morocco and its great cities Casablanca, Tangier, and Marrakesh symbolize everything exotic about Arabic culture. The films “Gladiator,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Black...
