When I’m not writing or cooking, doing yoga or driving the kids around, I am in bed with George Washington, wondering just how religious he is, or was. It’s been fun. In fact, I’ve become intimately acquainted with all our founding fathers’ religious beliefs. How? Well, Mr. Chattering’s full library of books on Washington, Franklin,…

Novelist Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) is the talented author of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” a tale of rollicking disaster that’s hugely popular with the eight to 11-year-old set. In an interview with editor Nadine Epstein in this month’s Moment: Jewish Politics, Culture, Religion magazine, Handler confesses to being raised in a Jewish household…

There’s a smell. You know that smell? It’s the fake pine smell of the commercial cleaning products that many schools and restaurants use. When I’m stuck somewhere and I smell that smell I feel like climbing the walls. I used to sit it out. Now I leave, or move, and pray that soon, everyone will…

Beliefnet just posted Valerie Reiss’s excellent interview with writer and free spirit Alice Walker. Walker says: We have a splendid opportunity, for the first time ever on earth, to truly get to the root of things and to transform human society. It’s entirely possible, and it’s really up to us. And since I believe that,…

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