On Friday, November 18th at 3:00 p.m. the ride to the Pittsburgh Airport was hairy.  I had finished my work for the National League of Cities at its annual meeting, jumped (well, “struggled into”) a cab (“last one at the Wyndham” said the dispatcher) only to face a city almost in lock down.  Several bridges […]

It is an understatement to say that we’re reeling.  All of us, not just my wife and I at the breakfast table this morning with heaviness, with tears in our eyes, with uncertainty about what to do next. What is our responsibility? Is  that not the task – determining next steps, what it takes to […]

Alan Paton, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Cry the Beloved Country, hailed as one of the best novels of the last century writes an eternally relevant story of brokenness, an agonizing story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu priest who attempts to heal his family sundered by South Africa’s apartheid: his sister a prostitute, his brother […]