Posted by Tom Ehrich 1 week 6 days ago
NEW YORK — I sat with my gospel choir colleagues, in a pew, while the host choir at Park Avenue Synagogue rehearsed a lovely Psalm setting in Hebrew.Some sang the Hebrew text with ease, some with...
Posted by Tom Ehrich 2 weeks 6 days ago
Five men who know what it means to be president of the United States shared a stage in University Park, Texas. Then the incumbent among them flew to Waco, to mourn 11 first-responders, killed in a...
Posted by Tom Ehrich 3 weeks 6 days ago
I wonder if social isolation — not extremist religion or Chechen roots — explains the two brothers who set off bombs during the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding more than 170.The older...
Posted by Tom Ehrich 4 weeks 6 days ago
“How do you defend against terrorists?” asked a colleague, as we processed news reports of two bomb explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.The answer, truth be told, is you probably...
Posted by Tom Ehrich 5 weeks 6 days ago
Church is being reinvented. So are technology and education. And all for the same reasons.Facebook just started moving Google’s cheese with its launch of Home. An army of upstarts in Silicon...