Spring 2020

Pandemics like COVID-19 were predicted, though few took notice. Where do we go from here?

Vision reviews Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes, in which author James Mumford proposes a way out of the political trenches that today divide the world into “sides.”

Are border walls the best way to ensure safety from outside forces?

Vision reviews Donatella Di Cesare’s 2020 book Resident Foreigners, in which she proposes a new philosophy of migration.

Cannabidiol (CBD) products, derived from marijuana, are increasingly popular. Do they work, and are they safe?

Are some common myths keeping you from appreciating and even enjoying the teenagers in your life?

The idea of matter as the basis of everything may seem beyond question. But a solely material view of the world doesn’t fill the enduring human need to understand why we’re here and what it all signifies.

Freed from Babylonian captivity, some exiled Jews returned to rebuild Jerusalem. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah detail their story.

With her Jewish ethnic group facing annihilation in the days of the Persian Empire, Queen Esther risks her life to forestall the plan.