The Covid-19 pandemic arrived upon the world stage shortly after I had begun a year-long study program on the life and works of Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), best known as the author of the searing Holocaust testimonial Man’s Search for Meaning. Sponsored by the Graduate Theological Foundation, the program consists of an in-depth review of his ten […]
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We live at a time in which true heroes are rare. Or perhaps it’s more correct to say that true heroes are all around us but we don’t know who they are: their humility keeps them in the background, out of sight, and we fail to notice their courage, decency, and moral strength. Today courage
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(with apologies to Mr. Lawrence “Yogi” Berra) “I didn’t really say everything I said,” Yogi famously retorted, upon being asked if the many koan-like dictums with which his name has become associated were his own invention. Among the more familiar: “When you get to the fork in the road, take it” and “Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is
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