Items tagged wealth

• Learning to live on both sides of the river

  In The Other Side of the River, Alex Kotlowitz recounts a story that displays the complexities of racial segregation in America today.

• Paradise wanted?

  Summer vacations past provoke reflection on a love-hate relationship with ‘perfect’ places.

• Lies and the impeccable word

  What the parable of the rich man and Lazarus can teach us about discerning lies.

• Leaning, leaning

  P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood and security in the American Dream.

• For everything else

  A review of Pierre Salvadori’s film Priceless, an unconventional love story.

• BE HERE NOW (and later, too)

  Reflecting on a year-long experiment in time off.

• Abundance for all

  What's right with the prosperity gospel?

• A simple phrase

  Keeping the goal in sight beyond the glitter of wealth.

• The invisible border

  Mapping a neighborhood by streets, class and color -- and hoping for a better way home.

• Stickin’ it to the man

  Who, exactly, is "the man"...and what can we do about him?